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Re: Some lujvo...
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> 6) ceirmamta or cesmamta (rather than: la ceirmam. :) - la mydanys.
>> 6) 1 is a god mother/ holy mother of 2 -- probably not culturally
neutral:
>> maybe social mother or religious mother or education mother is
more neutral
>> -- every culture seems to have such a job.
I did *not* want be *neutral*, but find an expression for 'Madonna'
(God's mother). Is it the task of Lojban to be neutral at any
cost? One could create a monstre lujvo with built-in definition
(mother-of-god-Jesus-Christ-in-the-sense-of-Roman-Catholic-
Greek-Orthodox .... religious-understanding), but that is not the
goal. Shouldn't we try to get concise and unambiguous expressions,
e.g. of Chinese type "shenfu" (Roman-Catholic missionary priest)? How
about 'Rabbi' (ravvi) as /doictu/ (do ctucu)? Or /
solcevni/solcei (solri cevni)?
>7) zirblagrute
>> 7) 1 is a bluish-purple fruit of species 2 (grape? plum? eggplant?)
Shouldn't /zirbla/ be purplish-blue? Is eggplant a fruit or a
vegetable? - It might be /grute/ anyway ;)
> 8) zirblaborutytricu >>
>> 8) 1 is a fruit tree of species 2 (as above -- scratch eggplant)
Do eggplants grow on trees??? Can't imagine that /tricu/ comprises
shrubs, bushes and that kind of smaller plants, especially
those annual herbaceous plants (Germ.: Stauden).
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