From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Sep 14 07:59:15 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MnD1P-0003MH-3j for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:59:15 -0700 Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MnD1L-0003Lc-O0 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:59:14 -0700 Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so2115687bwz.34 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:59:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=S0F9AXKRJK8CwZpFIBQpR9CRNVRttF1yoC2jz8H0x0Y=; b=Bocs2699zJ+YzLeAk8Tqq22QYjXbDRpWFzM7snY525mst2YJbBRS64vbDOUEjoqHf3 TbDiNKZEbNgW0BWQXpXSMAH6fwQ3PfGKkzyzcWoBuiVuFLpHtCrtUBzqyYqSg03ZWQ2P 6jpYwz0p20BC68lT7C1V2CjzoJ2CMRae4njjQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=TXiA5Ba6EPMSuSh3RDYPtheedyc05wjAR9JTxppQkG/koWDMVhOVucvjsyWZH5Bur/ FwIynNSc2jZUT0qsdyj2rxgQRLVbp9rjHVKq5+UvBGO2CQE1xiVrdMkh7YH44K0DyM6m +9z8XSiovyTZ/ztgrw7A5ARS1YnhWB8deSjU8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.3.137 with SMTP id 9mr2231932fan.45.1252940345208; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:59:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9DE5DB0988ED6C448E606734F5030D381BED83A0@bbcmbmx01.blackpool.gov.uk> References: <9DE5DB0988ED6C448E606734F5030D381BED83A0@bbcmbmx01.blackpool.gov.uk> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:59:05 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5d346b98f4c10ecb Message-ID: <4de8c3930909140759m7460e23amc1701d1a9ea5796f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Watch out! From: tijlan To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-archive-position: 2325 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jbotijlan@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners 2009/9/14 Michael Eaton : > From a purely practical standpoint, as opposed to a linguistic one, surely > something that could be shouted loudly and quickly, ideally a single > syllable, would be preferable. {ckape} would be a good, if overly dramatic, > choice. "Watch out!" in Japanese is usually "Abunai!", which is an exact equivalent of {ckape}, with 3 syllables. So i wouldn't consider {ckape} overly dramatic.