Received: from vms.dc.lsoft.com ([205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id QAA03534 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 16:23:15 -0500 Message-Id: <199601202123.QAA03534@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by vms.dc.lsoft.com (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 0BBD26CB ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:28:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:43:44 GMT Reply-To: Don Wiggins Sender: Lojban list From: Don Wiggins Subject: le'ala'ozo PLI Cultural gismu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 736 X-From-Space-Date: Sat Jan 20 16:23:38 1996 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU > >I find it difficult to envisage the > >definition of an entire culture as a su'oremei pagbu lujvo. > > Why not? We define "jegvo" for all of judeo-muslo-christianity, "baxso" > for Malay-Indonesian, "glico" for all English speaking cultures 9and only some > of them have their own separate gismu), "ropno" for European cultures. Yes, but there always a cultural gismu at the starting point of these lujvo which is then restricted. Is it possible to boot-strap the cultural lujvo solely from "kulno". For instance, "jegvo" could be replaced by one-god-culture (say) "pamemceiklu". Unfortunately, it really difficult to imagine X-Y-Z-culture for English or the other nations. This is what I am trying to get at. .i co'omi'e dn.