Re: [lojban] comics

[Saeid Al-Wazzan <carbon.evolve@gmail.com>]

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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