Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?

I'm starting to see the conlang book idea as being a series:  telling jokes
in conlangs, erotic literature in conlangs, etc.
RR

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Andreas Johansson <andreasj@...>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Brett Williams <mungojelly@...>
> wrote:
> [snip]
> > I'll give an example which I think tells a lot about Lojban culture.
> > I kind of feel like I'm revealing a secret, in a way-- I mean it's not
> > secret at all, it's openly logged all the time in fact, but it's an
> > open secret because it's encoded into a strange cypheric creature
> > called a "lujvo". :)  The lujvo I'm thinking of is "cinsne", which is
> > made from "cin" for "cinse", to be sexual, and "sne" for "senva", to
> > dream, and means to have a wet dream.  It is increasingly common &
> > traditional to say to someone who is heading off to bed from
> > Lojbanistan: "ko cinsne" -- Have a wet dream!  (It's meant somewhat in
> > jest, but not haha-funny, & it comes from a long shared strange
> > Lojbanic sense of humor and absurdity.)
>
> I once met a troop of, of all things, Estonian Boy Scouts who were in
> the habit of saying "may you dream erotic dreams" in lieu of "good
> night".
>
> --
> Andreas Johansson
>
> Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
>