[lojban-beginners] Re: Genders

["la cuncuxnas." <thatskotkid@gmail.com>]

There probably is a really easy way to do that kind of thing.  The
lojbanists who know what they're doing pull linguistic tricks from out
the very air, and I feel like a six-year-old at his birthday party
trying to figure out how that rabbit got in that man's hat in the first
place.  But it seems to me that Lojban doesn't really have a lot
of those titles, or honorifics, or anything.  (The 'hauteur' cmavo
comes close, though.)  I think such nomial add-ons would come
naturally through usage (and, also, adding straight rafsi to names
wouldn't be a bad way to do it, in my opinion).  Or there's that
really easy way I just don't know about, either one.

Although, having things like Mr. and Ms. doesn't necessarily mean that
they'll specify gender; I know Japanese has honorifics that cover both
genders (-san, for example), and I would think (or at least hope) that
Lojban would do the same.  One of the things I like about Lojban
is the avoidance of the whole "sexist pronouns/language" debate.

mu'omi'e cuncuxnas.

On 9/17/05, Naomi K <alien.juxtaposition@gmail.com> wrote:

coi

  Is there any easy way to distinguish genders in lojban; e.g. how would you say 'Mr and Mrs Smith'? I was thinking of incorporating 'nin' and 'nan' into the names  e.g. la smitnin .e la smitnan, but that would sort of distort the name somewhat.

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mu'a mi'e .nei,omis.