Re: psychotherapeutic lojban

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

la .and. cusku di'e

> p.s. I got an A in my Chemistry O level. My teacher predicted
> I'd fail, but I memorized stuff about Bessemer Converters,
> Vanadium IV Pentoxide, and something that involved the sequence
> "Potassium, Calcium, Sodium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Zinc, Iron,
> Lead, Silver, Gold". Fuck knows what that was all about.

Reminds me of the alien in Hal Clement's sf novel _Iceworld_,
chanting "Gold--Tofacco!  Gold--Tofacco!  Gold--Tofacco!" without
knowing what the hell he's saying.  (What he *wants* is to trade his
gold for the Earthling's tobacco, but he can't manage labial
stops.)

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
			e'osai ko sarji la lojban