Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: Rabbity Sand-Laugher

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 00:41:35 -0400 (EDT)

[email-masked] scripsit:

> <And something does need to happen if Lojban is to grow. Sitting on it and
> using it merely as something to argue about will not get the language to
> go anywhere.>
> 
> I couldn't agree more. But producing a pile of crap because of poor planning 
> and poor choices seems to me a bad way to get the language off its duff. 

Taking Three as the number to reason about,
A convenient number to state,
Add Seven and Ten, and multiply out
By One Thousand diminished by Eight.
We then proceed to divide this, you see,
by Nine Hundred and Ninety and Two,
Subtract Seventeen, and the answer must be
Exactly and perfectly true.

(How to compute 1+2, for na'ebo lo cipnrdodo)

-- 
John Cowan [email-masked]
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter