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[lojban] Re: We need more new words for umami taste, menthol taste and piquancy

Well, at least I humbly translated all tastes into lojban. Now we can develop it further into a physiology textbook vau zo'o

On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:27:21 PM UTC+4, ianek wrote:
{ka broda} cannot mean "salty" etc. "ti ka silna" means "this is a property of being salt", not "this is salty". You could make lujvo like {silnyvu'i} etc. Replacing gismu by lujvo is also possible, but then I guess you want to use more meaningful terms for other things too, like {fetre'a} instead of {ninmu} and {nalma'u} instead of {verba} and {nalma'ufetre'a} instead of {nixli} and maybe even {cmuvla} instead of {gismu}...

mu'o mi'e ianek

On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:16:49 PM UTC+2, gleki wrote:
I suggest optionally replacing existing gismu for tastes with more meaningful terms.


?                   ka silna -salty
titla                ka sakta - sweet
slari               ka slami - sour
kurki              ka cakla - bitter
                     la'oi umami / ka rectu - umami
                     se kurtsapi / ka mernta - minty/fresh
                     ka tcati - dry
                     ka grasu - fatty
                     ka xalka - kokumi (alcohol included, so non-neutral)
                     ??? - numbness taste
                     ka cpina - spicy

On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 7:25:31 PM UTC+4, gleki wrote:
Umami is considered as one of five tastes now. To be fair it deserves gismu, but I'll be humble. Fu'ivla will be fine for me.
It's called umami (at least in English, Spanish and Russian)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami 

Also taste has such features as chemesthesis which includes menthol taste and piquancy.

What are your suggestions?

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