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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: let us
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2009/9/9 Squark Rabinovich <top.squark@gmail.com>:
> The fact it is so in certain natural languages doesn't mean we should do it
> this way in lojban !

Well how *should* we do it? Lojban is supposed to be culturally
neutral, but it seems that if we decide on saying "let's <VERB>"
either as a first-person plural imperative of the <VERB> or as
something else it's going to end up being culturally biased. To me the
concept that "let's <VERB>" is an imperative form seems completely
natural, but it may be only because that's how it is in my native
language.