From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Mar 27 23:33:47 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:33:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B7Une-0006ek-GV for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:33:42 -0800 Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:33:42 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Onomatopoeia (err, sp?) Message-ID: <20040328073342.GK18619@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200403280221.32021.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403280221.32021.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7359 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 02:21:31AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:05, la_okus wrote: > > How could some of these sounds be integrated unambiguously into > > lojban grammar? Any other comments? > > There are two ways of using onomatopoeia in Lojban: > > *Use the cmavo {sa'ei} as a vocative: sa'ei tresk. le blaci cu farlu Please point out that a cmavo is non-standard when you use it, and point people to the definition. Thanks. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui