On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Escape Landsome
<escaaape@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello dear members,
I'm interested in Lojban and newly arrived on this group. Please be
patient with me :-)
I want to translate two noun phrases into Lojban
1°) the first is french "Grand Silence", which means "Great Silence"
in english, "great" in the sense of "great" (and maybe also "deep")
I didn't find "silence" in the dictionary, should somebody create it ?
Assuming silence is X in lojban, is "le X banli [ku]" the correct
translation for "Great Silence" ?
2°) I want to find a translation for a pun. A friend of mine is
nicknamed "Cochonfucius", which is a pun between "cochon" = pig and
"confucius" = Kong fu-zi, the famous chinese philosopher. (This is
because of some chinese novel character that assumes a porcine form to
visit the world and teach philosophy ;-)
What would be the best way to keep the pun understable, assuming of
course there is one ? "Pig" is xarju, "pig species" is selxarju, has
anybody an idea ?
By the way, does there exist "puns" in Lojban ?
.esk.
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