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Re: [lojban] Baby words: soft to the touch.



Yes, velvet isn't really smooth.

There's a few words I found for velvet, but none of them are about the /texture/ of velvet, which is what it seems you're asking for.

Specifically, demsilka, ranbu'u, and krebu'u.

I would suggest {skapi tengu}, but only if we can specify the "pelt" meaning of skapi.

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 09:49:02PM +0200, selpa'i wrote:
> Am 06.07.2012 21:33, schrieb Robin Lee Powell:
> >{ranti} seems to be about soft like a ripe fruit, not soft like
> >velvet.  What would you use for the latter?  Is {ranti tengu}
> >malrarbau?
>
> ranti is about yielding to pressure, not necessarily about the
> surface. You can say: lo do flira cu ranti lo nu pencu "Your face
> is soft when I touch it." (as opposed to firm)
>
> If you want to call the surface "soft", I suggest xutla.

There are lots of things velvet is, but if it's {xutla} I've misread
{xutla} very badly.

-Robin

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