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Re: [lojban] And the Eskimos have 100 words for 'Snow Cone'
From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@math.bas.bg>
Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote:
> At 10:37 AM 02/10/2000 +0200, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:
> Since you would use "eda" in expressing "before/during/after eating",
> I would ask how Russians express eating/snacking that occurs between
> the customary meals of the day.
Well, there are words for `snack' (derived from `bite', mostly).
A trickier question is how one manages to exclude those when
talking of eating. Context does the job: `3 times a day after
eating' clearly means `after the 3 major daily eatings'; `eat
_k_ times a day' is interpreted as `have _k_ meals a day'
precisely because snacks are accidental by nature.
> At 02:31 PM 02/10/2000 -0800, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> >la lojbab cusku di'e
> > >But on the other hand, if someone asked me to define "sanmi"
> > >in Lojban - my first inclination would be to say "nu citka" ("event
> > >of eating") so that the matchup is not as bad as you make it sound.
> >
> >That has to be malglico!
>
> And malrusko and malspano, from the sound of it
The same word also denotes {nu citka} and {se citka} in Hindi
(where one even says <khAnA khAnA> `eat eating --> a meal' for
`dine'), Chinese and, I'm sure, Arabic. I can't claim that
this metonymy is common to all natlangs, but it is certainly
very common. Which doesn't make it acceptable in Lojban, though.
--
<'al-_haylu wa-al-laylu wa-al-baydA'u ta`rifunI
wa-as-sayfu wa-ar-rum.hu wa-al-qir.tAsu wa-al-qalamu>
(Abu t-Tayyib Ahmad Ibn Hussayn al-Mutanabbi)
Ivan A Derzhanski <http://www.math.bas.bg/~iad/>
H: cplx Iztok bl 91, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria <iad@math.bas.bg>
W: Dept for Math Lx, Inst for Maths & CompSci, Bulg Acad of Sciences
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