On Mar 15, 2010 2:15pm, Jorge Llambías <
jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Jonathan Jones
eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 2010/3/14 Jorge Llambías
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> >> Why does the verbal connotation of "say" bother you so much, but the
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> >> same verbal connotation of "talk" doesn't?
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> > Do you have a better suggestion for tavla than talk? Because I don't.
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> No, I think "talk" is the best one-word gloss for "tavla", just as
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> "say" is the best one-word gloss for "cusku". I don't think "say" and
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> "talk" are too similar (they are no more similar than "cusku" and
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> "tavla"), and I don't think their vocal connotation is so strong that
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> people won't realize that they can use them for non-vocal contexts.
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> "Speak" would be my second choice for "tavla", but it is worse than
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> "talk" in terms of connotations. "Say" and "talk" are almost perfect
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> matches for "cusku" and "tavla", since they take the same kind of
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> arguments and even the order of the arguments is as in English (which
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> is of course not really a coincidence).
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> mu'o mi'e xorxes
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