Return-Path: Message-Id: From: cowan (John Cowan) Subject: Re: The culture gismu, with explanations (longish) To: lojban-list Date: Fri, 3 May 91 11:21:39 EDT In-Reply-To: <9105021457.aa05924@COR4.PICA.ARMY.MIL>; from "Arthur W. Protin Jr." at May 2, 91 2:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL13] Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Fri May 3 11:22:50 1991 X-From-Space-Address: cowan > There are some cultural words missing. On the contrary, almost all of them are missing! Only a handful have been included as gismu; all the rest are intended to be made as le'avla. > From the world religions: > Hinduism is surely a big enough one to merit its own gismu. It doesn't need one: the very name "Hinduism" indicates that it is the religion of the Hindus, xindo lidja. Now of course not all Indians (or even all Hindu-speakers) are Hinduists, but that's the way the tanru work: le merko gugde cu glico gugde ("The U.S. is an English type of country") even though not all U.S. citizens speak English. The answer to all your other points is: make le'avla. remnrne'andertalensi would be a reasonable word for "Neanderthal", e.g. -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban