Return-Path: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@vms.dc.LSOFT.COM Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id RAA20697 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:12:00 +0200 Message-Id: <199601171512.RAA20697@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id FC93F167 ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:11:56 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 15:12:29 GMT Reply-To: Don Wiggins Sender: Lojban list From: Don Wiggins Subject: sera'aku SNU: ki'e doi skot. To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 376 Lines: 7 > > For instance, how does one do Irish? > The gismu list gives "sicko'o" = "Western-Scot". That's cheating! ;-) Your defining one culture as a sub-set of another. Part of what lojbab said that Ivan said was that >no< culture gismu are needed (apart from 'kulnu', I suspect). I find it difficult to envisage the definition of an entire culture as a su'oremei pagbu lujvo.