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Re: [lojban] Zombie



On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Friday 17 August 2012 19:44:28 Jorge Llambías wrote:
>> My (not widely shared) opinion is that any word "sufficiently
>> international" and that comes ready-made in gismu form is a valid
>> honorary gismu. So I don't mind using words like manga, pitsa, taksi,
>> tango, ... and zombi.
>
> "manga" conflicts with "mango", which I think is sufficiently international
> (it has very similar form in five of the six source languages).

If we can live with broda/brode/brodi/brodo/brodu, I think we can put
up with manga and mango as well, especially since they are unlikely to
be used in the same context.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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