From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Jun 08 19:52:45 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 9 Jun 2001 02:52:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 17477 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2001 02:52:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 9 Jun 2001 02:52:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta2 with SMTP; 9 Jun 2001 02:52:44 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (dynamic223.cl8.cais.net [205.177.20.223]) by stmpy-1.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f592qhe90224 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 22:52:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010608225622.00d83520@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 22:58:41 -0400 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] le jbozgi In-Reply-To: References: <20010608210556.A1207@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 10:33 PM 06/08/2001 -0400, Craig wrote: >I love it! plus it's good for humor - what if refers to a dog, >and refers to it's owner, and I inform you that: > >le broda cu melbi > D A D C D G > >Who's beautiful? the melody says its the person, the words say the dog. >That's the best I can do half asleep, but we could get some great musical >puns going. I don't see why this concept of musical language or its associated humor is necessarily specific to Lojban, but I do see that it offers a new form of creativity and humor that seems in keeping with the spirit of the language. Go for it! lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org