Re: [lojban] Cool

["A. PIEKARSKI" <totus@rogers.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. 

Why "of course"?  I realize that lojbanistan is dominated by English speakers, 
but it's not a language for English speakers.  fui'vla should be based on 
either words that are recognizable in many or most languages, 
or on international nomneclature systems like the linnaean.  In how 
many languages does 'cool' mean 'cool'?

totus

 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)
> 


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