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[jbovlaste] Re: za'e mablrxasxolo (was: Re: Newbie: How does voting work...
In a message dated 7/10/2009 18:48:54 Eastern Daylight Time, ted.reed@gmail.com writes:
> The American Heritage dictionary says it means "an irritating or
> contemptible person". I think that all of these English phrases
> describe a more general concept than "selfish" or "bad": "bad/
> irritating/mean/malicious/selfish/contemptible" plus "person".
>
>
> That's close to what I was trying to suggest.
xlapre?
--bancus
"bad person"? In this context, I think that's way too broad a word. Each of the adjectives "bad", "irritating", "mean", "malicious", "selfish", "contemptible", and more should have its own word or phrase, with or without "prenu".
And why a lujvo? A tanru should be fine in most, if not all, cases.
stevo