Re: [lojban] comics

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

  In Hebrew, it's "קומיקס", which is "comics".  Guess that doesn't
help very much, does it?  :-D
      --gy

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Saeid Al-Wazzan
<carbon.evolve@gmail.com> wrote:
> In Arabic comics are "قصص مصورة"  (qisas musawwarah") which translates
> roughly to "stories rendered as images". I think that might work in
> lojban. Hope that's helpful
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I couldn't find a word for "comics" in the jbovlaste.
>>
>> Assuming we need one (and I think we do) I started thinking about what
>> other languages do (AFAIK):
>>
>> Italian: Fumetti (that literally means "little smokes" referring to
>> the balloons with the words in)
>> English: Comics (referring to the comical subject of the first comics)
>> Japanese: Manga ("whimsical pictures" probably referring to the
>> subject of the first picture books)
>> French: Bande Desinee ("drawn strips" for the fist format that was
>> used for comics)
>>
>> Unfortunately I don't know about other languages.
>>
>> For Lojban, the best I could come with is based on the fact that
>> comics are images that talk so it could be {tavla zei pixra}
>> {tavyxra}.
>>
>> A comic book would be a {tavyxracku} ?
>>
>> Has anyone else found a better word?
>>
>>
>> remo
>>
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