Larry Wall & Cults

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Thu Aug 26 19:27:31 EDT 2004


Marco Aschwanden wrote:

> > What does the Kaj ... phrase mean?
> > "You are dumb", "Your joke is dumb", ...?
> 
> >> Bonvolu ne s:ercu pri nekonatoj aferoj. "Xah Lee" certe - pro manko de
> Please don't make jokes about unknown things. "Xah Lee" for certain - [for
> esperanto] failing to have the
> 
> >> Ikso - ne estas esperanto. Kaj via s:erco nur s:tulta estas.
> letter 'y' - is not esperanto. And your joke is nothing but stupid.

That's two bad translations so far.

"Please don't joke about unknown issues.  'Xah Lee' certainly, on
account of the lack of an X, is not Esperanto.'  And your joke is only
stupid."  (Though _stupid_ was misspelled.)

"Xah Lee" doesn't have a Y in it, after all!

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