[jbovlaste] Re: stuffed animal

["* Hieran Makhwali" <sarefo@googlemail.com>]

i know tisycanti = sausage.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> what I meant by "doesn't have a dedicated word" was that we don't have a
> word that combines stuffed and bear..... though, I guess we actually do.
>  I've heard kids say things like "where is teddy".  Ok. so how about these
> for starters:
> 1) tisycribe
> t1=c1 tisycribe fi'o seltisna t2 fi'o selbukpu x3
> t1=c1 is a stuffed bear, stuffed with material t2 and made of fabric x3
> 2) tisyractu
> t1=r1 tisyractu fi'o seltisna t2 fi'o selbukpu x3
> t1=r1 is a stuffed rabbit, stuffed with material t2 and made of fabric x3
> (and for the kids show being worked on)...... oh... nevermind, jbovlaste
> doesn't have an entry for moose.  What would the closest thing to a moose
> be?  Or should we define that as well?
> comments?
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 02:28:07PM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote:
>> > .uacai yes, tisna makes way more sense.  Mr Michael Turniansky threw me
>> > off
>> > *glare*.  I like tisna cribe/ractu/danfu/etc...
>> >
>> > So here's a question more relevant to the purpose of this forum.  Should
>> > a
>> > lujvo be created like tisycribe or just leave things as they are now and
>> > people will just say "tisna cribe" in the same way that english doesn't
>> > have
>> > a dedicated word for stuffed <animalX>?
>>
>> I think English does have not one, but several, dedicated words.
>>
>> The English Wikipedia mentions stuffed toy, stuffie, plush toy, soft toy,
>> and cuddly toy.
>>
>> Of the languages I understand, English is the only language in which the
>> word for stuffed animal explicitly includes its stuffedness. Other languages
>> use words based on its purpose (cuddling/hugging), or its composition
>> (fabric).
>>
>> --
>> Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
>> Please Note: Some Quantum Physics Theories Suggest That When the
>> Consumer Is Not Directly Observing This Product, It May Cease to Exist
>> or Will Exist Only in a Vague and Undetermined State.
>>                                    --Susan Hewitt and Edward Subitzky
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