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From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._Tueting_(T=FCting)?=" <Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de>

--- In lojban@egroups.com, "Alfred W. Tueting (T=FCting)" <Ti@f...>
wrote:

> The American expression seems having been pretty convincing to the
> world because its (first) referents obviously=20
> standing in that part of the globe called New York.
> "grattacielo" (sky scraper)
> "Wolkenkratzer" (cloud scraper)
> "sgirie-nori" (cloud scraper)
> "felhokaparo'/felhokarcolo'" (cloud scraper)
> "mo2tian1 lou2" or "mo2tian1 da4 lou2" or "mo2tian1 da4 xia4 (BIG5
> *=AF=80=D1*=D3 or *=AF=80=D1=80j*=D3 or *=AF=80=D1=80j=B7H) (rub-sky=20
> storey-house/tower or rub-sky big storey-house/tower or rub-sky big
> big-building)
>=20
> Would "sky-belly-tickler" be better? ;-)

Or cloud-piercer?

BTW, just want to add that some peoples prefer kind of fu'ivla, like
the Maltese:

skajskrejper - xorta ta' bini gholi hafna (lb.: corta ta bini .oli
xafna) =3D kind of very high building :-(

How do the Arabs, Turks etc. handle this metaphor?
(g=F6kdelen/g=F6kdeldi? something with sky=3Dg=F6k)

.aulun.