From rob@twcny.rr.com Sat Sep 30 22:41:10 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_0_3); 1 Oct 2000 05:41:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 20805 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2000 05:41:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 1 Oct 2000 05:41:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout1-1.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.81) by mta3 with SMTP; 1 Oct 2000 05:41:09 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout1-1.nyroc.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA13598 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 01:37:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.24.9.71]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 01:34:14 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) id 13fbQm-0004Pt-00; Sun, 01 Oct 2000 01:12:56 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 01:12:56 -0400 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Onomatopoeia? Message-ID: <20001001011256.A16943@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <20000930205109.A16402@twcny.rr.com> <0009302335461F.10552@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <0009302335461F.10552@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 11:31:19PM -0400 X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 11:31:19PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > 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. Ah! That's a very good solution. The rules of fu'ivla are permissive enough to allow a lot of onomatopoeias, as long as they can be stretched to start with a consonant and end with a vowel. -- la rabspir.