Received: from vms.dc.lsoft.com (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id UAA19214 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:53:26 -0500 Message-Id: <199601180153.UAA19214@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 AE38636C ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 10:11:50 -0500 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: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 376 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Jan 17 20:54:04 1996 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU > > 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.