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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 09:10:40 -0500
From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>
Subject: Re: Promoting Lojban [was Re: Loglan still alive?]
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At 12:29 AM 2/22/99 +0800, you wrote:
>From: Lin Zhemin <ljm@marx.ljm.wownet.net>
>Fri, 19 Feb 1999, zo Robin Turner(robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR) cusku di'e
>> {do drani .iku'ibo} Lojban is intended to be culturally neutral, so
we've got a
>> problem there!
>
>Ya, it's paradoxical here, again. Once Lojban has its own culture, it
>shall never be culturally neutral.

Why is this necessarily so?  Could not the Lojban culture embrace all world
cultures as equals?  If the culture itself favors no culture including
itself, it remains neutral.

lojbab