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Re: TECH(?): can everyone write impeccably grammatical Lojban?
MarK:
> Details, details. Both have the whole alphabet. Actually, I usually
> prefer your version, since it's marginally shorter, but for some reason my
> fingers typed the other. Shortest one I know is the grammatically marginal
> "Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz." Or maybe "Zing! Vext cwm fly jabs Kurd
> qoph." At 26 letters, those don't get any shorter, but their English is
> less than helpful. All the words did manage to get into some respected
> dictionaries, though.
"zing" can also be taken as a participle of the verb "z: (meaning "buzz").
Colin