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    Posted by PierreAbbat on Fri 08 of May, 2009 14:28 GMT posts: 324

    This sign appeared on the door of room 315 (we were in 321) during Penguicon.
    I had no idea what it was supposed to mean and asked around. It turned out
    they meant "The Marshmallow Brigade", i.e. "la fonmo sakta jenmi".

    ni'o xu da jajgau loi kacmyxra be la penguikon?

    Pierre

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    Posted by lagejyspa on Mon 11 of May, 2009 17:01 GMT posts: 350
    On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

    > This sign appeared on the door of room 315 (we were in 321) during Penguicon.
    > I had no idea what it was supposed to mean and asked around. It turned out
    > they meant "The Marshmallow Brigade", i.e. "la fonmo sakta jenmi".


    Clearly your mistake was in thinking that "le fomsa sukta bo jensa"
    was intended to be lojban. Actually, it's nothing of the sort. It's
    a polyglot utterance:
    le — The (French)
    fomsa — fit, appropriate (TLI Loglan)
    sukta — vedic verses (Sanskrit(?))
    bo — in it (Hebrew)
    jensa — our (Somish)


    Clearly, you were being told "The appropriate verses in it are
    ours". I think it's the linguistics equivalent to "All your base are
    belong to us". Glad I was able to clear this up.
    --gejyspa


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