Re: [lojban] [oz] {dizlo tonga}

[Pierre Abbat <phma@leaf.dragonflybsd.org>]

On Sunday, January 05, 2014 14:09:45 Felipe Gonçalves Assis wrote:
> I guess it refers to "low tone". Isn't it too metaphoric? The frequency, I
> would say, is at most cmalu, or clani pavdilcu. What about {clani tonga}?
> Wave length, period and the tubes and strings used to produce them are all
> long.

We say "snosli tonga". "dizlo tonga", I think, would refer to a tone coming 
from the bowels of the earth. "clani tonga" refers to duration.

Pierre
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