Re: Lojban

Dana Nutter \ deinx nxtxr <li_sasxsekREMOVETHIS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>So give a few of the better answers.

I did.  I expressed them as metaphor translations rather than Lojban
words because that way a non-Lojbanist will understand, and a
Lojbanist can make the word from that metaphor trivially.

>> Of course it can.  "mela'o gy. s****ts gy." means exactly whatever the
>> English word s****ts means, having borrowed it intact as non-Lojban
>> text.  But few Lojbanists would choose such a copout, and no
>> broadcaster would.
>> 
>>  and that Lojban is not a language
>> >that could ever be used for daily life.
>> 
>> It certainly could. But the concepts that would be used would probably
>> not map exactly to English language concepts.  So the broadcaster
>> would say something else about what was to be broadcast, dividing the
>> categories of the world differently.  That is the way languages work.
>
>So what's the one that would map to "s****ts" as it applies here
>to the act of re****ting on events related to s****t.

I said "mela'o gy. s****ts gy." is the only way to map exactly to the
English language concept.

lojbab