[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban geography and cultures

["Matt Arnold" <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

On 4/17/07, mls1@rice.edu <mls1@rice.edu> wrote:
> I think there aren't enough musical gismu. I was thinking of translating "Black
> Water" by the Doobie Brothers, but ran into trouble with words like "Dixieland"
> and "Honky-Tonk" and "Funky". What I tried at first was making lujvo, but that
> was rather difficult. I suppose fu'ivla could be used, but this still seems to
> be a bias towards music non-importance. Even besides this translation attempt,
> it is difficult to talk about music in general. There is the word zgike for
> music, but how do you talk about jazz, or rock, or funk, or classical; let
> alone tell the difference between swing and blues and latin jazz and bebop?
>
> Marjorie


Marjorie,

That sounds like a textbook appropriate case for creating fu'ivla
(borrowings) if there ever was one. I wouldn't support whole gismu for
musical styles whose invention and height of popularity were within a
few decades of each other. On the scale of human civilization, that's
a flash in the pan. Musical is just as jargoned as political
philosophies or religious demominations and sub-demominations. Such
things the gismu list cannot hope to cover.

-Eppcott