[jbovlaste] Re: stuffed animal

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

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).

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