sarji

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@access.digex.net>]

lenu Steve Belknap wrote (nice to see an unfamiliar name posting
here!) cu sarji lemi [opinion on sarji] and mentioned the
desirability of forging new metaphorical paths.
X-From-Space-Date: Sat Apr 29 00:13:46 1995
X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu

I think we have done so do some extent already.  I know that I have
caused some consternation by describing a river delta as "rirxe gaxno" %^)

But having been heavily into my Russian studies in recent weeks, I am
recurringly in awe of how much Russian is "malglico" metaphors.  Either
a lot of common metaphors have been borrowed, or the semantic wordings
have surived the eveolution from proto-Indoeuropean times, or the
languages have independently reinvented the same metaphors.

Thus the Russian word for "find" is has the prefix for "upon" attached
to the root for come/go, i.e.  "find" = "come upon".  This kind of
parallel use of prepositional prefixes seems to occur all over the
language.  But there are a lot of set phrases that seem virtuallyu like
word-for-word translation of (what I might have assumed was) English
idiom too, based on my Lojban work.

lojbab