From lojban+bncCLTF8YDmFRDW6eviBBoEGIMOdA@googlegroups.com Thu Aug 05 10:29:16 2010 Received: from mail-gy0-f189.google.com ([209.85.160.189]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh4Fh-0004vo-9K; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:29:15 -0700 Received: by gyb13 with SMTP id 13sf15073123gyb.16 for ; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:29:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:x-beenthere:received:mime-version :received:received:date:in-reply-to:x-ip:references:user-agent :x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help :list-archive:sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=BA7gKjG0coK2LQZzIGFtkLXCfCG/og/aNPOI2BXVMOI=; b=0XGGqp9vhPbgk4DdVqJ0Uf2oWv+j52YIRZikjYn+L9QaRZHpFbgMMM28FK8U/CG8RT CnAV4jMNBjKfVrHBen7hVrPwwbbkPIqeuLlsrlJxvbD9GWqDYsLx9KgwpUZDVCdoNBCL /iayFlQaHcfru1vhPi1T+26psA5qa0nvVSMr0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:in-reply-to:x-ip:references :user-agent:x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to :x-original-sender:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id :list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fKXYQjd9ffH4qziU3PENWJrpMItzL4wqdhkWgKMGx+0Qd67PfRSWQVWWLBEmNUUe6E KFUybopTf8u2xBwXB3tIKQpvHMvYC8+2vCC85vQqRkIbVGa6nii2kN0l3lvxto/omgvF 3zejelEvBYfgEa6bW6jJPay5Ijj3rsMzo3SOc= Received: by 10.101.114.12 with SMTP id r12mr1332267anm.25.1281029334372; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:28:54 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.101.194.29 with SMTP id w29ls977866anp.1.p; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:28:53 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.107.1 with SMTP id j1mr1322873anm.60.1281029333846; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by p11g2000prf.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 10:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 10:28:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <55527712-fd80-4cca-8743-6ef4203d82cc@b4g2000pra.googlegroups.com> X-IP: 119.152.37.32 References: <2da8180a-51b0-4555-9ff7-1a1b7e6f5c77@a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <55527712-fd80-4cca-8743-6ef4203d82cc@b4g2000pra.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.125 Safari/533.4,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: <6cf20fc0-7db9-43f2-bf56-196e3fca074b@p11g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: Auditions From: Ali Sajid To: lojban X-Original-Sender: ali.sajid.imami@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Foods: Traditions vary by regions. But an essential part is "Roti", a kind of bread. And rice. They are used with what we call "salan", which is something cooked to eat with. There are usually no "courses". Numbers and letters: There is a luck association with "7", and also holiness. And No specific associations in letters. Clothing, i'll dig up pictures. :) On Aug 5, 10:19=A0pm, Lindar wrote: > > As for the culture of Pakistan/India is concerned, here's what i have. > > > People here are very focused on families. They considers families, big > > families, as a blessing. Mostly there are atleast three generations > > living together under one roof. > > This sounds absolutely horrifying by western standards, and this is > one of the many culture-clashes that I've noticed in trying to piece > together our culture-puzzle. In most 'western' cultures, independence > is strongly emphasised. Some people will be 'family people' and spend > a lot of time visiting relatives/parents, and some will not, but it's > very strongly emphasised that children should leave home as soon as > possible. > > > There is an extreme focus on traditions and symbolism. Almost all > > stuff in Indian/Hindu Culture is symbolic. And so is most of Islamic/ > > Pakistani culture. > > We were hoping to do this as well (numbers, symbols, colours, flowers, > etc.), but it's very difficult to come up with something precise > because so many cultures have conflicting views on things. The number > 4 in Japan is considered bad luck because it is pronounced the same > way as the word 'death'. In English-speaking places, the number 13 is > considered bad luck, but 4 is not. I think it would be lovely to have > symbology in everything, but that seems near possible to draw from > other cultures, and we may have to start coming up with our own > independent system of symbology. > > > They are very hospitable, and consider guests a blessing. > > THIS sounds like something fantastic that we definitely want to use. > > > The kids usually live with their parents almost all there life. > > Again, this sounds horrifying by my cultural standards. I love my > mother, but I'd sooner strangle her to death than live with her my > entire life, and I know for a fact she feels the same way. > > > I'm kinda at a loss at what other stuff i should write, so i'll answer > > both questions, and update it when i can think of more stuff. :) > > What about foods, colours, numbers, letters, types of friendships, > courting, relationships, clothing? --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. 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