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Re: [lojban] Zombie



On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:36:17PM -0500, vitci'i wrote:
> On 08/17/2012 05:01 AM, Visirus wrote:
> > Was discussing this in irc and we couldn't come up with a consensus since the word "zombie" seems to mean several different things.
> > 
> > Any suggestions on how to resolve this in order to translate "zombie"?
> 
> Why not just use different words for the different senses?

Exactly what I thought when I read this mail.
Why would you want one word in Lojban for something as ambiguous as the word "zombie"...

There are at least two more meanings of zombie: In 28 days later the hosts don't even
need to be dead before they become zombies. Also there are philosophical zombies(see wikipedia).


v4hn

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