Re: [lojban] comics

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:41 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.

Spanish: Historieta ("little story")

> 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}.

Sounds good. It could also be "lisxra", or "xralisri", since some
comics don't have dialogue.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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