[lojban] Re: me zo tersigja preti

[mungojelly@ixkey.info]

Quoting Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>:

> ma klesi  lo'i valsi lo ka ce'u sumti be zo sigja bei li ci
> .i lo cupra ji lo terpra cu go'i
> .i la jbovlaste cu na'e satci


I've been thinking about it since you asked, and my feeling is that  
the process would be most useful for the third place.  For instance a  
rollie has a tersigja of "you take a paper, wrap the selsigja in it,  
roll it tight, lick it and stick it", while a honey blunt has the  
tersigja of "you remove most of the tobacco from a cigar, put the  
selsigja in instead, roll it into a conical shape and seal it with  
honey and toast it dry with a lighter".  It would be easy enough under  
that interpretation to say "tu'a la marlboros." -- some process  
related to the thing named Marlboro, presumably "you take a big smelly  
factory, a pile of chemicals, and lots of really cheap tobacco, etc".

ni'o

Could we form some sort of za'e gimkamni to make rulings on these  
sorts of things?  Gejyspa, you seem to have taken an interest in rare  
gismu places lately.  I'm also interested myself.  Why can't we come  
up with a formal process to make sense of these things?  Anything even  
vaguely clear would be a vast improvement over the word "by" po'o,  
imho..

mu'o mi'e la bret.



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