On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Lindar <lindarthebard@gmail.com> wrote:What about older terms like "fresh" or "funky"? :) My dad came up with those because he doesn't really see how a language could work without slang.
{zanru} and {selmanci} or {zgiselmanci} specifically for music.There are plenty of weird words that we have that don't map to English if you're looking for something like that. Like {ckavre} means like... reclining in bed. The problem with Lojban is that you can't really just assign an arbitrary new meaning to a word or add implication to a word. That's not part of the language. We have weird words that don't map to English perfectly and we have some silly addages/phrases/words like {.i ko'a muvdu .ije le drata ku klama fu zi'o}, which is like "Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other.", but doesn't actually say that.So... no, we don't have words for "rock n' roll" or "funky" or "bitchin'", but neither does Japanese or Chinese or Arabic. >_>
All these languages have ways of saying "rock 'n roll", although Japanese borrowed it from English. "Funky" and "bitchin'" are indeed slang, and I wonder what a non-slang 'translation' into English would be for them.stevo--To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban-beginners/-/2avw_ksLdIoJ.
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