[lojban-beginners] "The pen is mightier than the sword."

2009-08-21 Thread Gabriel Koulikov
Okay, this is probably going to be a "phrase of 1000 possible translations" here, but how would one say "the pen is mightier than the sword" in Lojban while staying true to the original quote? (meaning? wording? I'm sure it would be different for each) Can Lojban even translate such metaphors dir

[lojban-beginners] Re: problem

2006-10-12 Thread Gabriel Koulikov
Please let me know if if this the wrong place to bring this up: I've always wondered why, with all the official alternate ways to pronounce ['], [f], [n], [r], [v] and other letters in Lojban, why oh why is there NO alternative pronunciation of [x], as it seems to be by far the most difficult Loj

[lojban-beginners] Re: Is there a word for "target"?

2006-01-23 Thread Gabriel Koulikov
could you decide to say the same thing multiple different ways and still be grammatically correct? (feel free to use/cite other examples other than "target" as well) -Gabriel Koulikov (perhaps a formal introduction will come later; I'm new to the list and excited about Lojban) O