False friends between Lojban and TLI Loglan

[pne]

(Cross-posted to my journal and lojban)

On the Lojban mailing list, Pierre Abbat challenged people to find a sentence which means one thing in Lojban and another in Loglan; he had helpfully posted a list of false friends and other word pairs to the Lojban tiki.

John Cowan came up with this:

"le barda mi dakli" means "the big one is a bag with me in it" in Lojban, but in Loglan it means "the one who rewards is more likely than me".

Likewise, "gutra le maksi" means "A womb of the magnet!" in Lojban, "Be strange to the maximum value!" in Loglan.

Comments

[noidd.livejournal.com]

Small world.

I know pierre personally. :-)

Re: phma

[pne.livejournal.com]

Wow, small world indeed.

I take it you met him after moving to Carolina?

Re: phma

[noidd.livejournal.com]

Yes.

He is a regular at Charlotte Linux users group like myself.

[tungol.livejournal.com]

Hey, funny, I was thinking of a very similar thing about a week ago.
I was thinking about the possibility of producing a string of sounds that is meaningful in two or more different languages, probably with different meanings. I didn't make any examples, though. I guess it'd be easier with Loglan/Lojban than with most language pairs because they probably have quite similar phonologies (and/or allowable spellings, since this seems to be spelling-based)