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le la kaleval. jbofitpla

>Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:07:51 +1000
>From: nsn%MULLIAN.EE.MU.OZ.AU@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU
>Subject: le la kalevalas. jbofitpla
                      ^^
Tell me, Nick, you do this just to see if I'm still reading? :-)

>Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 09:57:17 -0400
>From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU>
>Subject:      lemi malfri

>>I think {ca le pasobinomei nanca} would work better:  the year you describe
>>(by Western conventions) to be the 1980th.

>You mean {le pasobinomoi nanca}, which happens to match the Russian standard
>(actually, the Russian standard is {le binomoi nanca}, but that's not very
>Lojbanic.) The Lojban standard until now has been {la pasobinonan.} (nan for
>nanca).

Yeah, I realized that afterwords.  {moi}, not {mei}.  I personally prefer
the tanru form to the cmene form, so I think it shouldn't be discouraged
(I'll trade you: I won't discourage the cmene form).

>Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:39:24 -0400
>Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU>

>>ni'ota'o doi nitcion. pau do snada xu te mrilu lemi kardu la .iisra'EL.?

>.i go'icai doi mark. i mi mo'u te mrilu le kardu cazi le djedi poi do di'a
>cmima le mriste ca ke'a .i mi pu plagau fo lenu frati ckire do .iku'i.u'u
>leni mi cutyzu'e cu dukse fi lenu mi snada go'i .i le karda cu li'a mutce
>pluka mi gi'e jibni le karda poi mi te mrilu fi la .iVAN. la lndn. ku'o...
>fizo'ezo'o no'uzo'onai tu'a le kajna po mi

I understood the words but not the meaning of that last bit.  "and [it's]
near the cards which I was mailed by Ivan from London on something (humor)
which is (no humor) something-to-do-with my shelf."  What's the deal with
the "fizo'ezo'ono'uzo'onai"?

~mark