From phma@oltronics.net Sat Sep 30 20:54:11 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_0_3); 1 Oct 2000 03:54:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 10302 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2000 03:38:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m7.onelist.org with QMQP; 1 Oct 2000 03:38:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.44) by mta3 with SMTP; 1 Oct 2000 03:38:38 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 131F63C56A; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:35:46 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Onomatopoeia? Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:31:19 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20000930205109.A16402@twcny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20000930205109.A16402@twcny.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0009302335461F.10552@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Rob Speer wrote: >I'm wondering - how do you use onomatopoeia in Lojban? > >All I can think of is that you'd have to use entire Lojban words to approximate >the sounds, whereas in other languages you can use the sounds of that language >to approximate a sound. > >le bakni cu cusku zo mu >(The cow says "Five") That to me implies that the cow had a number in mind when she mooed. I would say "le bakni cu bacrlmu". In general I'd make some sort of fu'ivla out of an ideophone. phma