Re: TRANS: Fw: names of ants
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 1, 2000, 20:32 |
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Doug Ball wrote:
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> >> <<Nobody remembers the names of ants.>>
In Lojban:
noda morji lo cmene be lo manti
lit. no-thing remembers those-which-are (names of those-which-are ants)
Note that Lojban sentences don't begin with capital letters or end with periods.
Since Lojban has optional number, it could also be read as "Nobody remembers
the name of an ant"; not a hypothetical "typical ant", as in English,
but some unspecified actual ant.
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