Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:15:20 -0500
From: turnip <turnip@bcpl.net>
To: lojban-beginners <lojban-beginners@lojban.org>,        Penguino <spheniscine@gmail.com>
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Word for "bless"
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>===== Original Message From Penguino <spheniscine@gmail.com> =====
>I've been wondering about the state of the Lojban equivalent to the word
>"bless". Jbovlaste gives *ruxyzau*, however this is for blessing an action,
>not an object. I suppose one can use *tu'a* here... though it might not be
>clear exactly what the abstraction is. There is also (*ces*)*toldapma*,
>though it might be ambiguous... it could also mean "x1 releases/un-condemns
>x2 from damnation x3", paralleling *tolvimcu*, and (in my opinion) an ugly
>word to use for bless.
>
>I guess one could get a word for* *"bless" that parallels the place
>structure of *dapma* through something like *zanseldimgau*, but it is rather
>long.

  I, too, have wondered about it, but also because the English word means 
different things to different cultures.  For example, in Judaism, we most 
often use it to say that God is "blessed".  What exactly does that mean?  
Certainly not gviing an imprimatur to an action, nor consecrated, as it might 
in christendom.  In fact, in means "praised".

                       --gejyspa