[lojban] And the Eskimos have 100 words for 'Snow Cone'

[sklyanin@pdmi.ras.ru]

From: sklyanin@pdmi.ras.ru

Ivan Derzhanski wrote:

>Never mind `fun'; why is there no word for `meal' in Russian
>(or Bulgarian, or many other languages for that matter)?  

Yes, I had a tough time trying to translate the gismu "sanmi" for my 
Lojban-Russian dictionary (my current project, far from completion).
After all, I came up with "trapeza", a word rarely used in modern language
but the nearest thing to "meal" I could think of.

Evgueni Sklyanin

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