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The Lojban Kalevala Project
- To: John Cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Subject: The Lojban Kalevala Project
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!ctr.columbia.edu!shoulson>
- In-Reply-To: Ivan A Derzhanski's message of Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:17:36 BST
- Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!ctr.columbia.edu!shoulson>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!LOJBAN>
>Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:17:36 BST
>From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad%COGSCI.ED.AC.UK@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
>> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:57:37 +1000
>> From: nsn@AU.OZ.MU.EE.MULLIAN
>>
>> Ivan writes (btw, welcome back;
>Welfound. (I mean, _kalws se brhka_.)
I take it that's an Arabic expression? (the _brhka_ root leads me to
believe that). Very similar one in Hebrew: welcome greeting: "Baruch
haba'"--"Blessed be he who comes", to which the response is "Baruch
hanimtza"--"Blessed be he who is found [already here]". I like it,
pesonally.
ni'ota'o doi nitcion. pau do snada xu te mrilu lemi kardu la .iisra'EL.?
~mark