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[lojban-beginners] onamatopoeia in lojban



  Is there any simple generally-recognized way to use sound effects in lojban?  For example:

ca le nu lemi bruna cu tirna le nu mi tavla fi lo lojbau kei kei  by cu cusku zo klik

 

Does that work?  Does that say what I want it to say?  I think it does, because zo is a "magic word" and klik looks like a cmene, but what if I wanted it inside an utterance, like, "The dog says, 'Arf!, I want some meat.'"?  Would I have to say the extremely clunky: le gerku cu cusku lu zoi gy arf gy .i mi djica tu'a lo rectu li'u ?

 

Also, while I'm on the subject, is there a way to put connectors between FA pieces?  I would have really liked to have said something in the first sentence like

(ungramattical) "…. mi tavla fi jabo fo lo lojbau…." (in other words, when I talk in or about lojban…)

 

                 --gejyspa