Re: [lojban] Cool

[Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I saw this old school juke box and thought to myself "that's cool".
>
> What would be the closest lojban for this?  I'm looking for a word that is
> generic and means "good" with a connotation of being stylistic, popular,
> attractive (physically, conceptually, or otherwise), etc...
>
> In other words, if someone saw a really sexy sports car driving down the
> road in jbogu'e what might he say?

"Cool" is a cool word, huh?  We can be sure there's no gismu even
vaguely similar to "cool" because it would have been considered the
worst malglico in the world. 8)

If you want exactly the connotations of "cool" what you want of course
is a fu'ivla.  You can even get all the various senses of "cool": za'e
{xamgrkulu} or za'e {zabnrkulu} could mean like "wow, look at that,
that's cool" while za'e {jikcrkulu} could mean more like "no worries,
we're cool man" and maybe za'e {cninrkulu} could mean being the latest
hippest thing, etc.  Then you can say:

{.i ko na xanka .i mi'o jikcrkulu .i do zabnrkulu pe'i .i xu do djica
lo nu do mi kansa lo cninrkulu} = "No worries, man.  We're cool.  I
think you're cool.  Want to go do what's cool?"

We should also be thinking about some lujvo on -xau (xamgu) and -za'a
(zabna) and -nei (nelci) and such for the subtleties of grooving upon
things, but I don't think we should try to reproduce any natlang
meanings there.  Instead, we should explore new distinctly Lojbanic
flavors of goodness. 8)

mi'e la stela selckiku
mu'o

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group.
To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.