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

[vitci'i <celestialcognition@gmail.com>]

{ranbu'u tengu} should work.

On 07/06/2012 03:14 PM, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> 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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