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



They're usually not showing any concern. se'o it is either a
mechanical response to the sneeze or a polite acknowledgment.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:39 PM, lojbaj <zacharyspector@gmail.com> wrote:
> They're all basically showing concern for the sneezer (sneezist?)
>
> So {.uu} would suffice.
>
> On Mar 29, 11:20 am, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglove...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It seems like a silly question, but it's one of the things I've heard
>> people learning early on in their language acquisitions.  Is there an
>> accepted lojban phrase?
>>
>> The phrase in various languages I know (and, for my fun, literal
>> lojban translations):
>> English - "Bless you" - {cesri'a do}
>> Russian - "будь здоров" - {ko kanro}
>> French - "À tes souhaits" - {tezu'e lo do selpa'a}
>> Hebrew - "לבריאות" - {tezu'e le kanro}
>>
>> (If anyone knows of a better translation of the vague "to" than
>> {tezu'e}, I'd appreciate knowing.)
>>
>> --
>>           Alex R
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