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Nick's joke
- To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
- Subject: Nick's joke
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU!shoulson>
- In-Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster's message of Thu, 2 Apr 1992 20:33:35 LCL
- Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU!shoulson>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!pucc.Princeton.EDU!LOJBAN>
I'm very proud to say that I got the joke without looking at a single word
list even *once*. I'm less proud to say why: I understood a fair number
of the words, from which I recalled the joke, and from there I could make
out all the others. But I think I wound up understanding nearly every word
by the time I was done. Comments:
ru'azo'o loire jvixi'a casnu vi lo xalgusta
{loire} implies that there are *only* two racehorses in the world, doesn't
it? Like {lo ci remna} where {ci [lo ro] remna} would be better? Probably
just use {leire} or something. Could you use {re jvixi'a}, or do you
really need the "mass"? Oh, and you need a {cu} before {casnu}.
Very understandable on the whole. Didn't know that about the Korean
joke-telling style; most informative.
~mark