[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban geography and cultures

[mls1@rice.edu]

*shrugs* Okay. Makes sense. (Which is a good thing.)

Marjorie


Quoting 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
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