Re: [lojban] Onomatopoeia?

[Rob Speer <rob@twcny.rr.com>]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 11:31:19PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> That to me implies that the cow had a number in mind when she mooed. I would
> say "le bakni cu bacrlmu". In general I'd make some sort of fu'ivla out of an
> ideophone.

Ah! That's a very good solution. The rules of fu'ivla are permissive enough to
allow a lot of onomatopoeias, as long as they can be stretched to start with a
consonant and end with a vowel.

--
la rabspir.


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