Re: [lojban] Baby word: "cry"

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 11:04:14PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> We only have klaku, which requires tears.  I don't normally produce
> tears when I cry, and the babies can cry for hours without producing
> any at all.
> 
> I've been using {dunku krixa} for the babies, but I myself
> frequently cry (as in, my internal physiological experience is that
> of crying) without sound or tears.
> 
> {dunku krixa} will do for most purposes, but I thought people might
> want to play with it.

There is also {cmoni}, which is always non-linguistic. It also have an x3 to specify what the crying is expressing, which may or may not be what you want, depending on your perspective.

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Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
Kortet Deres er beholdt.

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