Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andreasj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 30, 2009, 23:28 |
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Brett Williams <mungojelly@...> wrote:
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> I'll give an example which I think tells a lot about Lojban culture.
> I kind of feel like I'm revealing a secret, in a way-- I mean it's not
> secret at all, it's openly logged all the time in fact, but it's an
> open secret because it's encoded into a strange cypheric creature
> called a "lujvo". :) The lujvo I'm thinking of is "cinsne", which is
> made from "cin" for "cinse", to be sexual, and "sne" for "senva", to
> dream, and means to have a wet dream. It is increasingly common &
> traditional to say to someone who is heading off to bed from
> Lojbanistan: "ko cinsne" -- Have a wet dream! (It's meant somewhat in
> jest, but not haha-funny, & it comes from a long shared strange
> Lojbanic sense of humor and absurdity.)
I once met a troop of, of all things, Estonian Boy Scouts who were in
the habit of saying "may you dream erotic dreams" in lieu of "good
night".
--
Andreas Johansson
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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