From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Oct 27 01:57:12 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GdNWG-0006vf-E7 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:56:53 -0700 Received: from centrmmtao03.cox.net ([70.168.83.81]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GdNW4-0006vN-MO for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:56:52 -0700 Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by centrmmtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.03 201-2131-130-104-20060516) with ESMTP id <20061027085639.EXRP23438.centrmmtao03.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:56:39 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([72.192.234.183]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id fLw61V00R3y5FKc0000000 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:56:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4541CA39.9010804@lojban.org> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:58:33 -0400 From: Bob LeChevalier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Gismu space? References: <1161922951.45418987bfc61@webmail.pdx.edu> <200610270239.32889.phma@phma.optus.nu> <1161932191.4541ad9f9af50@webmail.pdx.edu> In-Reply-To: <1161932191.4541ad9f9af50@webmail.pdx.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 12810 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Ryan Keppel wrote: > coi .u'inairu'e zoi gy. > Well, I was thinking more along the lines of perhaps "integral" in mathematics. > Most of us who learn lojban are hardcore nerds. So? I haven't noticed that your language using is any different from that of most English speakers. > Thus, the gismu should start reflecting that. The gismu are baselined and frozen. That means NO CHANGES. > I don't care about lions, or Christians (although it's quite > fun when they meet). I care about integrals, photons, computers, derivatives, > complex numbers, robots, transhumanism, and that sort of thing. Of those, only "computer" has any significant use in word building ... and it has a gismu. You may care about those things, but you don't have anything to say about them that would have justified adding a gismu at the time we were still considering such things. To the extent most people use those words, they do so as jargon. > I don't want cultural neutrality. Then you don't want Lojban. lojbab To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.