[lojban-beginners] interesting

[HeliodoR <exitconsole@gmail.com>]

A few curiosities I wished to mention about the relation of NL's and Lojban...

 

I'm afraid dealing with relative expressions as if they were exact numbers is not only Lojban's feature: I've read a text translated from Italian which contained a phrase like this:

"...and Mario's father also was a lawyer. The number of lawyers in Italy is legion. [...]"

Though that one might be called an idiom, if I understood it well, 'LEGION' here was like 'zillion' of English - the 'very huge number', put into the sentence like a value (and also refecting the great culture that formerly owned the land of Italia).

Nothing's new under the sun.

 

In older cultures - also treated as "primitive cultures" - expressions and words that describe natural phenomenae referring to states or events can be easily found.

Darwin met Jagan people at the Tierra del Fuego, Fireland, but since he wasn't really interested in the primitive-looking people, he went on without having a deeper look. Unluck for him...

Jagans (am I using the correct word at all?) don't exist anymore, we've successfully destroyed them using various means, however we know little pieces of their traditions, religion and language.

Now I'm arriving at the main issue, I wanted to show some really covering words by them for seasons:

Spring - egg-time

Summer - seagull-flying-time

Autumn - beechleaf-ruddying-time

Winter - sunman-hiding-time

Beautiful, if You ask me... though we enherited these words from people who paid with their lives for ever meeting "civilized men".

mi'e .xili,odor.