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Re: [lojban] blood - jgina
On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 19:25:43 John E Clifford wrote:
> [Ame]rind(o) Native American. It looks like an old word, but it is not in
> any list I have. Many of those ethnic, culture words got made up and then
> never used and this may be one -- or Pierre have made it up noncely today.
> Carrying over the blood image is probably a bad idea, although doing it
> totally literally is probably worse ("none of my genetic material is
> derived from people of Native American heritage" or some such thing). Just
> {mi na rindo} should cover it.
It is an old word. I just entered it.
mi na straixe .iku'i du'o le mi lanzu le mi mampafpatfu cu straixe .i.a'o mi
baza cilre lo du'u lo straixe cu ckini mi fo la .relcibjolmib.
On Thursday, February 21, 2013 23:46:06 Jacob Errington wrote:
> {mi na rindo} is certainly *enough*, but it's not as unnecessarily complex
> as "I have no Indian blood", I think.
> I'd suggest maybe something like {.i mi se dzena no rindo}.
That's good, but one could also say "na rindo jgina mi" or "no rindo cu jgina
mi". That means that the genes I don't have are Indian, but not that they code
for Indianness, which they don't.
Pierre
--
li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci
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