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Re: [lojban] baby words: sneeze ritual





On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 02:21:50PM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote:
>   ki'u di'u mi cmila
>
> ni'o doi ry ko pilno zo je'e .i ri plixau zo'e tu'a zo ki'e .i
> paunai mu'i ma jy na plixau zo'e tu'a lo snici to mi zgana lo nu
> do snici .i ko ca smabi'o gi'e sipna doi cifnu toi

You meant senci, yes?

 
  I did, yes.  I'm constantly confusing senci with cnici, and you see here a half-breed mongrelization of the two.
 
 
.i cinri .i ki'e
 
 
    je'e.  It was just a thought.  Since we don't really feel the jbokulnu motivation to acknowledge a "thanks" with anything more than a generic "acknowledgement" (despite natlangs' tradition otherwise), the same might hold for acknowledging sneezes.
 
-Robin

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