Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tG622-0000ZTC; Thu, 16 Nov 95 17:15 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 2D3F5EB8 ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 16:15:15 +0100 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 14:32:04 GMT Reply-To: Don Wiggins Sender: Lojban list From: Don Wiggins Subject: Re: Some comments to mark,l To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 641 Lines: 14 > > Now, I don't know > > exactly what you mean by "eyebrow raising", but it would come out as {nu > > mebykre galgau} (as a facial expression) or {nu mebri xulgau} (as a > > surgical operation). > > ROFL! He means the former. Idiomatically it suggests surprise, or sometimes > a small indication that one is going to overlook improper behavior on the > part of another person, but not without letting the other person know it. I would render "eyebrow raising" as "ranxi" (contrary to expectation/ironic). Certainly there would be no use for the idiom involving eye-brows or raising, except when one is describing surgery. co'o mi'e dn.