[lojban-beginners] Re: Genders

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

der Mouse,
thank you for your comments. I think you're right. Today I blogged about this discussion: http://www.nemorathwald.com/

We should not despair of elegant simplicity of pronouns in Lojban to
save us from having to constantly repeat information. In fact, I think
{ko'a}, {ko'e}, {ko'i} and the other wild-card assignable pronouns will
allow us to bundle in even more information than we are used to. If you
specify that someone is male, Oriental, and short, and then say {goi
ko'a} meaning "hereafter referred to as the party of the first part,"
from then on when you say {ko'a} in that conversation it is not only a
temporarily gendered pronoun, it is also a temporarily raced and
heighted pronoun. It includes whatever knowledge the speaker has
described. But only as long as that conversation lasts.
-epkat