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Re: Onomatopoeia (err, sp?)



--- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> Please point out that a cmavo is non-standard when you use it, 
and point
> people to the definition.

I found the wiki page, it's cool. BTW are these going to be 
indefinitely non-standard? I thought the baseline was only 
violated when the change makes old text obsolete.

--- Pierre Abbat wrote:
> There are two ways of using onomatopoeia in Lojban:
> *Use the cmavo {sa'ei} as a vocative: sa'ei tresk. le blaci cu 
farlu
> *Make a fu'ivla: tsaparatsa'i (ratamacue), bacrnmu (moo).

I like this idea. I suppose sa'ei words must follow cmene rules 
since it is COI. I wonder how big of a vocabulary we could 
compile, borrowing onomato's from all around the world. A 
standard list needs to be made at some point.

mu'omi'e .okus.