From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Apr 19 00:26:08 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 19 Apr 2001 07:26:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 58667 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2001 07:26:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 19 Apr 2001 07:26:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 19 Apr 2001 07:26:07 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14q8pL-0004Cj-00 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:26:07 -0700 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:26:07 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE:not only Message-ID: <20010419002607.B11685@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from xod@sixgirls.org on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:07:37AM -0400 From: Robin Lee Powell On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:07:37AM -0400, Value Yourself wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > > > > la pycyn cusku di'e > > > > > > >likes olives and even she doesn't like them", there is a flat > > >contradiction for me, and the phrase loses all its humour.> > > >Actually, I think it is funnier, largely because it cuts across the persons > > >*expectations*. > > > > It doesn't work for me, neither in English nor the corresponding > > Spanish. > > > It doesn't make any sense in my dialect of English either. It doesn't make sense to me, but: "Of all the people I know, only my wife likes olives, and even _she_ doesn't like them! 8)" does, as an obvious, if poor, attempt at humour. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/