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Re: [lojban] Re: European mood in Lojban?




la aulun cusku di'e

> >.i ca'u le cevni kafyzda
>
> Why not {kafybarja}?

Oh! I'm not at all lucky with {kafyzda} which should (illegally) have the s=
tress on the schwa! But - having the American "Cafés" and
coffee shops in mind - I didn't want to use {kafybarja}!!! Maybe you can im=
agine what a "Kaffeehaus" (in Vienna) or a "Kavéház"
(in Budapest) really was (and, at some places there, still is) - and I coul=
d imagine that there are places like these also in your
capital: vast and high parlors with stuccoed ceilings and dark wooden panel=
led walls etc. Places of culture and morbide-elevated
lifestyle...

Yes, we have some of those here (next to the MacDonalds and the
Burger Kings) but that's just what a kafybarja is. If there is a
word with tradition in Lojban it is that one.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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