Subject: Re: Cold

From: "A.W.T." <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:33:54 -0000

--- In lojban@y..., Pierre Abbat <phma@o...> wrote:
> In the health section of the phrasebook, I found this:
> mi lenku fi le pevylekybi'a
> This sounds odd and malglico (or at least malbrasmudotco). First, "lenku"=
has
> no third place. Second, the use of "cold" to denote this disease appears =
to be
> peculiar to Germanic languages. Can we come up with a better word - zbiti=
sna,
> perhaps?

Don't know what you mean by "mal-bra-smu-dotco!
{zbitisna} doesn't seem too bad.
Don't think that "cold" is typical Germanic: Italian "raffreddore", but Ger=
man "Schnupfen" (=zbitisna).
Something not too different from "cold" is "flu" (influenza), German maybe =
"Erkältung" or more specific "Grippe"

.aulun.