Re: [lojban] doi HeliodoR

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

--- keppel@pdx.edu wrote:

> ko gletu ko


To beat a dead horse, notice that this is not very good Lojban -- semantically at least. {gletu}
is the Lojban word for copulation; it has none of the violent or denigatory affects of the English
word being translated here.  At least the predicate ought to be {malgletu}, but it is not clear
that we want to carry over this English usage -- however universal it has become -- into Lojban, 
I don't have an alternative to suggest, though the root meaning of the English word is "hit,
pound, batter" so {marxa} might be a good starting point -- it seems equally physically
impossible, even.