[jbovlaste] Re: crab

[Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> I think there should be a specific word for "crab". Looking at the words in
> various languages, I came up with two: "kangre'o" from Spanish, and
> "sartanu" from Arabic. Which do you think is better?

Trying them both on my tongue, I prefer "kangre'o".  I feel like we've
had a bunch of the shape CVC/CVCV lately but I don't remember anything
else shaped CVC/CCV'V, that's a pretty shape.


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:46 AM, * Hieran Makhwali
<sarefo@googlemail.com> wrote:
> i haven't followed the discussion lately (if there was any), but
> wasn't it considered bad style to use brazenly cultural fu'ivla for
> non-cultural items?

Opinions differ of course, but I consider Pierre's fu'ivla the epitome
of good style.  They're some of my favorite words, and I feel he's
added a lot to the beauty of our language.

I'd consider sacrificing aesthetics for supposed cultural neutrality
to be quite silly in a language that already has short rafsi for some
cultures and only long fu'ivla for others.  And I'm not so convinced
anyway that there's something ideally neutral about scientific Latin.


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