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Re: "Ash"
- To: Multiple recipients of list LOJBAN <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: "Ash"
- From: Goran Topic <amadan@IBM.NET>
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 23:47:57 +0200
- Organization: Free Minds Discorporated
- Reply-to: amadan@ibm.net
- Sender: Lojban list <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>
Translation follows.
.i coi
> Of the 100-word Swadesh list (a list of words considered to be
> highly stable in language evolution), Lojban has simple equivalents
> for all but "die" and "ash" (not the tree, but the by-product of
> combustion). "Die" we pretty much understand as "become dead".
> What's a good lujvo for "ash"? "Fire-excrement"? The current
> jvoste has nothing.
.i .ua.oi mu'i ma zo za'o .enai zo ba'o ku'i se rafsi
.i lu ba'o zei fagri li'u cu xamgu pe'ipei
co'o mi'e. goran.
Why does za'o have a rafsi form, and ba'o doesn't?!?
Aftermath-of-fire would be nice, don't you think?