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[76.76.236.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id pb3sm7538712igc.17.2012.07.14.02.23.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:23:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50013A86.40902@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 04:23:18 -0500 From: vitci'i User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Gender, yet again. 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> <4FFFAF56.7050901@gmail.com> <4FFFCCAD.5070809@gmail.com> <5000966F.0@gmail.com> <5000B735.6020605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Original-Sender: celestialcognition@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of celestialcognition@gmail.com designates 209.85.214.170 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=celestialcognition@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 07/13/2012 09:00 PM, Jonathan Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:03 PM, vitci'i > wrote: >> On 07/13/2012 04:57 PM, Jonathan Jones wrote: >>> Stereotypes aren't imaginary. They're derogatory, insulting, and >>> WRONG. >> >> What's the difference between something that's imaginary and >> something that's not true? > > I will not be dragged into a philosophical debate. I wasn't trying to be philosophical. Let me try again: would you please clarify the nature of your objection to the construction "imaginary category" to mean stereotype? It seems to me a fairly accurate description. >>> Except that's not the way we do things. The meaning of the >>> English >> "gender" >>> is so broad it covers /completely unrelated/ concepts. >>> >>> There is nothing wrong with having a word in Lojban that covers a >>> wide berth- that's what the intention of the gismu is, after >>> all. >>> >>> But we do /not/ have words that cover multiple concepts. That >>> defeats the purpose of the language. >> >> What set of words do you suggest? > > As I've said previously, I don't consider any of the concepts > important to /need/ a word, but I would suggest those of you that do > to use the list John Clifford posted. I think it's a bad idea to try to exhaustively list all the different angles on this, because our idea of what the list contents should be is likely to change. It would be better to have a single broad word that captures what they have in common, and then tanru/lujvo down from there. On 07/14/2012 12:23 AM, MorphemeAddict wrote:> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:03 PM, vitci'i wrote: > Many kinds of things can be not true without being imaginary: > opinions, sentences, stereotypes, Opinions and sentences are generally na'e jetnu, neither true nor false (though sentences often express propositions that are true or false). Stereotypes, on the other hand, are generally to'e jetnu, factually incorrect. -- 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.