Received: from mail-pb0-f61.google.com ([209.85.160.61]:37888) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SpXdI-0008QT-5Y; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:37:50 -0700 Received: by pbbro2 with SMTP id ro2sf3539810pbb.16 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:37:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=RqKC29eraLEPR7hwVw2mu94zR4jR2g3CbPiJKsdhqL8=; b=y58uYEzZW0VLaG597b/FODhS44HlumOUldaLzj58fCGSFupuVdV4kWgkc1RMQ1kQuW wYbmTbMOzyoBJIU0b54TzsLb+fe/Ax929AQ0l14RGc2yge5Y9b27QFkFiEA0K3WgsaK7 NrY1d85oSpl685yTJL7F/bQixbZB3YwyqtYJE= Received: by 10.52.68.141 with SMTP id w13mr43178vdt.18.1342154249753; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:37:29 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.52.100.72 with SMTP id ew8ls1556234vdb.9.gmail; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.75.161 with SMTP id d1mr626660vdw.2.1342154249191; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.75.161 with SMTP id d1mr626658vdw.2.1342154249181; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-vc0-f171.google.com (mail-vc0-f171.google.com [209.85.220.171]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l12si304927vdf.3.2012.07.12.21.37.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of nictytan@gmail.com designates 209.85.220.171 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.220.171; Received: by vcbgb30 with SMTP id gb30so2257707vcb.2 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.248.82 with SMTP id mf18mr458325vcb.20.1342154248975; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:37:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.24.193 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:37:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FFFA544.5070404@gmail.com> References: <4FFE5CB0.7050506@gmail.com> <41a043f3-4116-45ad-baab-730e89b69637@googlegroups.com> <4FFF61CF.9080807@gmail.com> <4FFF8D51.7070002@gmail.com> <4FFF9080.5000800@gmail.com> <4FFFA544.5070404@gmail.com> From: Jacob Errington Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:37:08 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban] Gender, yet again. To: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: nictytan@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of nictytan@gmail.com designates 209.85.220.171 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=nictytan@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / On 13 July 2012 00:34, vitci'i wrote: >>>>>> The use of "gender" in that context is different than >>>>> self-identification; >>>>>> it's targeting based on gender, and that's a tanru/lujvo. >>>>> >>>>> What would you tanru/lujvo together to convey that? sevzi is >>>>> insufficient to distinguish gender identity from other kinds of >>>>> self-identification (e.g. nationality/culture); klesi and le'e likewise. >>>>> cinse is narrower, but as I've mentioned also means sexual orientation, >>>>> and to distinguish which sense is meant we again need a word that means >>>>> gender. >>>>> >>>>> (If we had a word for sex, gender could be constructed by lujvo as "sex >>>>> stereotype". But we don't.) >>>>> >>> Anyway, I'm certainly not going to say {jbepibnafei ke kulnu xarlei ke'e >>> sevzi} every time I want to talk about gender identity. If I had the >>> power to rewrite cinse, gender identity would be {cinse'i}. >>> >> >> Good, because you'd be wrong to do so. Gender identity != genetic sex. > > Did you read the rest of what I wrote? The problem I'm trying to solve > is that there aren't words that are capable of specifying the concept > "gender". Since sex was one of the nearest misses, I constructed a > phrase including it. > > >> (Maybe {ko'a jbena zi'o zi'o zi'o fi'o plibu ko'e}) > > I don't think {zi'o} is what you want here: you've said that ko'a is > born never, nowhere, and to no one, but nevertheless is born. > Watch out with {zi'o}. {zi'o} is *not* "nothing" or any variation of it. {zi'o} *deletes* the place. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. > To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. 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