From treed@surreality.us Sun May 09 17:49:31 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 09 May 2004 17:49:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ca-fontana5d-137.snbrca.adelphia.net ([68.233.229.137] helo=localhost) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.31) id 1BMyyy-0007tY-54 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 17:49:24 -0700 Received: from treed by localhost with local (Exim 4.33) id 1BMyy2-0004NN-2V for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 17:48:26 -0700 Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 17:48:25 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: my new idea for onomato's Message-ID: <20040510004825.GC5095@surreality.us> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i From: Theodore Reed X-archive-position: 7731 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: treed@surreality.us Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 11:22:27PM -0000, la_okus wrote: > Define sa'ei as "everything following this cmavo is an onomatopoeia > until it repeats". This allows you to make the word without regard > to cmene rules. And onomatopoeias are usually found in repeated > pairs anyway (especially japanese ones: gero-gero, ira-ira, gocha- > gocha). Why not just use zoi? I'm not sure onomatopoeia have usefulness beyond describing the sound of something. mu'omi'e bancus