It sucks
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Monday, June 18, 2001, 3:35 |
|---|
Aidan Grey scripsit:
> ObConlang: How do you say that something "sucks" in
> your lang? That is, how do you express bad quality or
> whatever in slang in your conlang?
In Lojban, as I have posted before, *anything* can become an obscenity
by prefixing it with "mal-". Correspondingly, there is "zan-" for
the favorable sense of something.
Thus, "malkalci" would be "shit", "kalci" merely "feces", and
"zankalci" would be "manure, fertilizer".
The Lojban community uses the term "malglico", meaning "objectionably
English", to refer to inappropriate Englishisms in Lojban.
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter
Reply