Re: It sucks
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 18, 2001, 16:43 |
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Malglico! Now THAT is marvelous! Can I
borrow that into Teonaht? Teonaht borrows
shamelessly, but I thought I'd ask first.
Malggliko, n, "anglocentric" construction.
malgglikoht, adj. linguistically anglocentric.
Anglo, of course, means the culture, not necessarily
the language, but it sort of fits here.
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
----- Original Message -----
From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 11:35 PM
Subject: It sucks
> 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
>
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