Antonio Carlos R. da Fonseca | Re: [LFN] nova parolas

• Autor: Antonio Carlos R. da Fonseca (“acrfonseca”)
• Tema: Re: [LFN] nova parolas
• Data: 2004-08-24 00:21
• Mesaje: 694 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

Rio, 23/08/04
> Alo, Kevin!
> Joven: teenager, adolescent, youth
> Enfante: child, especially a young child
> Bebe: baby, infant
> Fia: daughter
> Fio: son
>
> You are right: we don't need words for boy and girl, really.

Sorry, but I disagree. To have boy/girl option is worthful and would
avoid misundertandings.

> The reason we might want to
> consider it is that male/female is a very important concept in all
> cultures I am aware of, and it wouldn't be bad to have a parallel
to
> om/fema.

This is another important issue. I think worthfull to have, at least,
the pair "male/female" besides om/fema. It seems very, very strange
have to write/say  "elefant om" and "elefant femea", for exemple,
when it would be important to be clear in respect to the sex on the
animals.

>It is a matter of balancing our desire to keep vocab limited
> and yet provide a full range of words for those who want them.

The key point is the balance. We must be not so economic to the point
of depriving important and valuable words of being created/adopted
and not so overspending in creating several words meaning absolutely
the same thing; this will inflate LFN without no value (See esperanto
with its dozens of words meaning exactly te same thing).
The nuances are very important in the richness of a language.
for exemaple:
A person that is known at scholl or work: colleague, comrade
A person that is known since we remember: friend,fellow
A person that we like and we want to be more close: boy/girlfriend,
date.
A person that we really like: sweathart.
A person that we love: beloved

In portuguese the verbs for "love" - querer, gostar, gostar muito,
amar, apaixonar, fascinar e idolatrar - do not have the exactly the
same meaning, but levels of intensity from one to the other.

Please think about.

> For boyfriend/girlfriend, we have amada ("beloved").  If "love"
isn't in  the picture, you can still be amis!

I think it's not something.

Salute!

Antonio