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On 17 December 2011 16:55, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't believe a word of that. Especially the part about "intellectual
> exercise".
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Lee Carlson <lorddraqo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This has been revisited from time-to-time and the outcome is always that
>> curses and such are deeply invested in cultural context. As such a language
>> that is designed to be culturally neutral does not provide curses outside of
>> the cultural context of the particular user. For anyone is raised with
>> lojban as their primary language, the concept of cursing, and expletives
>> will likely be an intellectual exercise, rather than an emotional outburst.
>>
>> mi'e brais
>>

It seems more likely that if people were raised with Lojban as their
primary language, they would develop a vocabulary of curses and
euphemisms of their own.

mi'e jesyspa

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