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Re: purple lojban

To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List)
Subject: Re: purple lojban
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:13:39 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <199510131938.PAA01250@locke.ccil.org> from "Logical Language Group" at Oct 13, 95 02:57:40 pm

la lojbab. cusku di'e

> Poet and semi-Lojbanist Michael Helsem created the word zirjbo ("purple
> Lojban") and it's adjectival counterpart jbozi'u ("lojbanically purple")
> as intentional malglico puns based on the phrase "purple prose".

Not so malglico.  The phrase appears in Latin; it's used by the poet Horace.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.

References:
- purple lojban
  - From: Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>

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