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What I get:

[cnoocy]

6 men are in a box; 16 men go to the moon.
What?
bookishfellow, does it make sense to you?

Re: What I get:

[cnoocy]

No, it's 18. Still not all that sensical, though 18 men have been to the moon. Dunno.

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

I think I may have my agent-patient, source-destination etc. concepts reversed, and my numbers are definitely weak. wouldn't human-R-agent-? and box-T-patient-? mean that the people have a box, not vice versa?

Maybe it's a tour group to the Isle of Skye.

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

Well, assuming the rock called "part of the sky" = the moon—and that I defer to you on the number system—I have it as:
Six people have a box (boxes). Eighteen people are transported to the moon.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Well--I do know six people who have a box. Are they going to the moon?

[cnoocy]

I think Have is a "state" morpheme, which works a bit backwards due to something similar to ergativeness. But I'm not sure.

[cnoocy]

Who has a box?

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

I do! Well, Rachel's currently holding it in her jacket.

[cnoocy]

Oh, I guess so. Heh. I'll let you explain to bookishfellow.

[cnoocy]

Or not, since that's not all that fair.
rikchik and I are running an RPG mini-campaign, which had its first session on Sunday. The session ended with the 6 player characters (including those of tahnan, leighjen, prog, and avon) finding a mysterious box, which they took with them.

rikchik is in another campaign with jadelennox, lsl, and srl, among others. Perhaps they are headed rock-in the-sky-wards.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

I did _not_ expect to wake up to 10 comments. -(o- (note: the previous symbol is a rikchik emoticon based on .)

Sky-Rock (as a place) was intended as "Mountain". I think there may be a better way to say that (maybe change Rock to Ground?). There are no moons visible from the rikchik planet, so there's no simple word for "moon".

Yes, in the other game there are 18 humans headed into the mountains.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Is it? Crap. How do you say A has B then? (We should add that to the dictionary.)

[cnoocy]

Maybe it shouldn't be.

[cnoocy]

Perhaps "mountain" should be .

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Yes, please imagine that I said instead of

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

I'd rather reserve that for low-tech repulsion-powered non-landing ground-to-air missiles. Though that would use the Inanimate aspect instead of the Place aspect, unless you were standing on one.

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

Boo-yah! Rikchik emoticons! Let's see...

_!_ = angry rikchik

'!' = confused rikchik

-i- = dead rikchik

555 = working rikchik

(8) = a rock (brickbat? snack?)

(i) = looking at you

°i° = thinking rikchik (okay, so it's not ASCII)

(i, = learning something new

oSj = I want it

[cnoocy]

You may have just sold me on a paid account so I can create custom mood icons.

[cnoocy]

\!/ = I have a headache
|i~ = loquacious
siz = sleepy
o8o = comfy, secure
J|| = reading

[cnoocy]

That should be:
`i' = I have a headache

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

-(o- -(o- -(o- -(o- -(o- -(o- -(o-

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

69 = horny
|i~ = gabby
JTT = reading
Eco = afraid
^o` = fighting (not so good)
(=o = dressed to the nines
=|) = protective

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Maybe fighting should be /oo\ or o^o ?

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

I meant to type 6o`, but maybe /oo\ or o^o is better. Getting away from ASCII again, you could do óò.

[cnoocy]

=|) might also be "defensive".