Lojban On XKCD

[nemorathwald]

This work is courtesy of the XKCD webcomic, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.

To the man with a hat I could say {jo'a go'ira'o zo'o} -- "That's true for me too. (humorously)" The man without a hat is not entirely correct. In Lojban one can speak as illogically as one wishes to speak. But by pointing that out, I'm exhibiting the sort of detail-oriented pickiness the man with the hat refers to. :)

For Lojbanists, getting xkcd'ed is as good as getting Slashdotted, Dugg or Farked! That means the author of xkcd is expressing a sentiment similar to Groucho Marx's statement, "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."

Perhaps we came to his attention from our translation of another one of his comics:


Needless to say, it took no time at all before a Lojbanist translated this comic: