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 PAA25694 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:43:01 +0200 Message-Id: <199601181343.PAA25694@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id B8DB1E6D ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:42:57 +0100 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: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 736 Lines: 15 > >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.