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Re: [lojban-beginners] What do you say in response to a sneeze

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Oren <get.oren@gmail.com> wrote:
In Chinese, you don't say anything in response to a sneeze.

bi'u

Before I really knew what 'bless you' and 'gesundheit' were really expressing (that i'm wishing they were healthier), I just thought it was a polite way of acknowledging a sneeze occured. Maybe one translation could be { senci } (Sneeze).

bi'unai

If a Chinese person hears { ko kanro }, I imagine they'd call malglico (or rather, malropno) foul.

I'm calling B.S. on that. Just because one culture doesn't have a practice doesn't make that practice mabla.
 
One similar situation might be for the english _expression_ "Brrr," for which (likewise) there is no Chinese equivalent. One translation of 'brr' into lojban that might make sense to a Chinese speaker is { lenku } (Cold).

Maybe, except that "Brrr...." isn't a bridi, it's an attitudinal. (Or at least, the English equivalent.)

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