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On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 01:00:08PM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote: > While I disagree with najrut, I have to say that I really don't think it > matters. I think I know Robin well enough to know it's not going to > happen. > > Robin hasn't even promised to upload the words. All he's said is > basically, when he has the time, he might do it. > > Doing anything beyond merely uploading them, any kind of special handling, > would require even more time and effort. > > Messing with jbovlaste in any way is very low on Robin's priority list, > especially considering his desire for jbovlaste 2.0 to be created to > replace it. > > Conclusion: Robin might, /might/, at some time in the future upload all > the ISO words to jbovlaste. But nothing more. But more likely, najrut will > have to put them on there himself if he wants them there this year. > > As to the words themselves, my reason for not wanting them is because when > it comes to all or nothing situations, I prefer nothing. The conversation > that spawned those two huge lists was about the cultural gismu, and the > fact that some cultures had a gismu, whereas others did not, and that this > was an example of Lojban /not/ being culturally neutral. It was decided > that the only way to be culturally neutral was either for all cultures to > have there own words, which resulted in a huge list of words based on ISO > codes of counrties and languages, or for none to have their own word, > which resulted in the creation of this list: > > [1]banra'a > [2]klura'a > [3]cemra'a > [4]jdara'a > [5]selgu'era'a > [6]tutra'a > > For example, {lu lo glibau to mintu la'oi English toi banra'a la'oi U.K. > li'u mintu lu lo glibau cu brito lo bangu li'u .e zoi gy. English is the > language of the U.K. .gy}. > > Personally, I would much rather remember 6 words that can be used for > /any/ cultural reference, than a huge slew of words that can each only be > used for one. > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:13 AM, .alyn.post. > <[7]alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 09:40:14AM -0700, najrut wrote: > > * *Also if you vote up one word from that list all the others should > be voted > > * *up automatically. They are all equal. None of them is better than > any > > * *other. > > > > I need to request again that you preserve the threading of e-mail > messages when you reply to them. *It is not clear at all to me > which message you reply to, when I read only your reply. *I cannot > tell what this e-mail is in reply to. > > Will you include the message you are replying to in your reply? *I > will not be able to continue a conversation with you if I am > confused by the ordering of your messages. > > -Alan > -- > .i ma'a lo bradi cu penmi gi'e du > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "lojban" group. > To post to this group, send email to [8]lojban@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [9]lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > [10]http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en. > > -- > mu'o mi'e .aionys. > > .i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o > (Come to the Dot Side! 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