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Re: [lojban] Dialects



Dnia sobota, 11 września 2010 o 14:38:04 Lindar napisał(a):
> I think I've figured it out.
> It's a dialect, if there ever could be such a thing in Lojban.

I vehently agree ;)

I was wondering how would one simulate different dialects, slangs etc., because I am kinda planning to translate something that would require this. Emphasizing terminators and emphasizing {cu} is one way to differentiate the language. Do you know of any others?

Except now I can't talk about simulation, now that it emerged spontaneously ;)

> I'm actually quite pleased by this. Lojban seems much more...
> legitimate... now that we seem to have emerging dialects. We should
> name them and celebrate them! britai? juftai? What would be a good
> word for 'dialect'? What should we call the dialects themselves? I
> like lindarbau myself. =D

How about "keiku"? zo'osai

> I think it would be very interesting and beneficial project to
> document the differences in dialects as I can identify at least two.
> We could document this as actual linguistic growth in the community
> (i.e. bonus points cos it makes us look like a "real language", not a
> scifi geek one), and then have lessons on "how to talk like a...".
> It's almost like the difference between kansai-ben and kanto-ben (in
> fact, that's almost a scarily accurate analogy).
> 
> So... what does everyone think?

My thoughts, exactly :)
-- 
Ecce Jezuch
"But it's not real and that's why its how I always want to feel
so let's die, before the secret gets revealed
I've tried but nothing ever can appeal
and if you don't mind I'd like to throw it all away" - J. Stem

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