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[lojban] Re: my new idea for onomato's



On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 11:22:27PM -0000, la_okus wrote:
> Define sa'ei as "everything following this cmavo is an onomatopoeia 
> until it repeats". This allows you to make the word without regard 
> to cmene rules. And onomatopoeias are usually found in repeated 
> pairs anyway (especially japanese ones: gero-gero, ira-ira, gocha-
> gocha).

Why not just use zoi? I'm not sure onomatopoeia have usefulness beyond
describing the sound of something.

mu'omi'e bancus