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[jbovlaste] za'e mablrxasxolo (was: Re: Newbie: How does voting work, esp. with natural words?)



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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Luke Bergen<lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As a side note, how would one say "asshole" in lojban?  It seems like a word
> that has a lot of cultural bias in it.  But how would one express that
> concept of "that person is a _____" where "_____" has a whole lot of
> connotations about selfishness etc... that we in english have decided to
> shorten into "asshole"?


You can make all sorts of colorful "mal-" lujvo that could have any
sort of connotations, but if you want to bring through the same
connotations as an English word the appropriate way to do it is
probably with a fu'ivla.  Perhaps "mablrxasxolo"?


mu'o