Re: [lojban] Re: zo tergafselsa'a

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:10:47PM +0400, Aleksej R. Serdyukov
wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >It's fine except that "te galfi se sanga" isn't a parody; it's
> >any cover of a song at all at all, parody or otherwise.
> 
> Yes, and I don't see any real difference between a song parody and
> a song with one word changed... 

Umm, then we're having a problem with the definition of the word
parody:

par·o·dy   Audio pronunciation of "parody" ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (pr-d)
n. pl. par·o·dies

1.
    1. A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an
author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. See Synonyms at caricature.

    2. The genre of literature comprising such works.

2. Something so bad as to be equivalent to intentional mockery; a travesty: The
trial was a parody of justice.

3. Music. The practice of reworking an already established composition,
especially the incorporation into the Mass of material borrowed from other
works, such as motets or madrigals.

I was using sense 1.  It appears you might have been using sense 3,
but that seems to be rather specialized (motets and madrigals).  In
general, a not-necessarily-ridiculing alteration of a song is called
a cover.


> If you make a word to differ them, how would you decide if you
> make little changes?

I have no idea what you're asking here.

> >Oh, and singer != author of song.  You might want to come up with
> >something for "piece of music" that has an author place first,
> >and no audience, i.e. "piece of music" in the infinitive.
> 
> .y. ki'a
> 
> Wouldn't it be longer?

Then the lujvo you had?  Probably, yes.

-Robin

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