From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Aug 20 09:57:04 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GEqaz-0001pB-8L for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:56:21 -0700 Received: from mx.211.ru ([193.238.131.194]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GEqaw-0001oz-4G for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:56:20 -0700 Received: from localhost (mx.211.ru [193.238.131.194]) by mx.211.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DBAEBC91 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:32:12 +0700 (NOVST) Received: from mx.211.ru ([193.238.131.194]) by localhost (mx.211.ru [193.238.131.194]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03528-07 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:32:11 +0700 (NOVST) Received: from mail.211.ru (mail [10.5.1.2]) by mx.211.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3320EBC2E for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:32:11 +0700 (NOVST) Received: from localhost (host-102-2-129.211.ru [10.102.2.129]) by mail.211.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED77D5C15 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:56:14 +0700 (NOVST) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:56:13 +0700 From: Yanis Batura X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.5.30) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <47859832.20060820235613@mail.ru> To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] mabla MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------871302022DFD0C6C" X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 12517 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ybatura@mail.ru Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list ------------871302022DFD0C6C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Why are there so many anatomical references for the gismu {mabla}? All those body parts may be/seem obscene or derogatory in Western/European culture, but not in every culture in the world. zo vlagi cu srana lo se smuni be zo mabla mu'i ma .i mi na tugni I think that is not culturally neutral! mi'e .ianis. ------------871302022DFD0C6C Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Why are there so many anatomical references for the gismu {mabla}? All those body parts may be/seem obscene or derogatory in Western/European culture, but not in every culture in the world.

zo vlagi cu srana lo se smuni be zo mabla mu'i ma .i mi na tugni

I think that is not culturally neutral!

mi'e .ianis.

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