From xod@sixgirls.org Sat Jul 14 22:40:06 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 15 Jul 2001 05:40:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 75288 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2001 05:40:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Jul 2001 05:40:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta2 with SMTP; 15 Jul 2001 05:40:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6F5e4214087 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 01:40:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 01:40:03 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Where is Lojbangug? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la pier cusku di'e > > >I'm trying to figure out where Lojbangug is from the vocabulary. Apples, > >bananas, citrus, pears, melons, berries, and tomatoes grow there; > [...] > >I don't get a clear picture of where this country is. It doesn't seem to be > >in > >the Americas, but I'd expect a lot of unfamiliar vegetation if it were in > >Africa or Asia, and there's only the lotus. So where is this place? > > Obviously the Lojban words correspond only approximately to those > earthly plants and animals. The place structure of terdi makes it > quite clear that the natives are familiar with at least two > inhabited planets (otherwise the x2 of terdi makes no sense), > and since we humans have not as yet discovered any other such > planet, we must conclude that it was originally the language of > some other race somewhere other than on Earth. Extraterrestrials who seem to know a great deal about Earth's ethnic groups. I find it interesting that their words for "television" and "computer" are simple root-words. Their tenses hint at knowledge of spacetime. So advanced, and yet they don't have a word for "billiards"! ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!