From thinkit8@lycos.com Sat Jun 09 16:18:07 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 9 Jun 2001 23:18:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 32946 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2001 23:18:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 9 Jun 2001 23:18:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO f19.egroups.com) (10.1.2.136) by mta1 with SMTP; 9 Jun 2001 23:18:06 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.2.208] by f19.egroups.com with NNFMP; 09 Jun 2001 23:18:05 -0000 Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 23:18:04 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Puns Message-ID: <9fuarc+she6@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <20010609225511.25164.qmail@web4107.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 550 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.5.121.32 From: thinkit8@lycos.com well i think the whole point of lojban is to reduce the confusion that leads to puns. i'm sure it's still possible to have a pun-like joke in lojban...but hopefully (by design) a lot harder than in english. --- In lojban@y..., Arnott Jennifer wrote: > Just one, to the point question: How are puns possible > in Lojban? > > ____________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk > or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie