[lojban-beginners] Re: gendered and gender-neutral language

[Sunnan <sunnan@handgranat.org>]

Ben Cook wrote:

> > pinji, plibu, cinse and other words are available. The gender-specific
> > words are useful for medical professionals.
> >
> > I'm aware that this strive for extreme "political correctness" might
> > seem off-putting to some. If so, look at it as an art experiment.
> > There's no offense intended.
> >    
>
> And Lojban does, in fact, have the terminology available to be perfectly
> politically-correct, even if a few potentially politically-incorrect
> gismu are present. None of the core language implies gender, just
> several gismu. If these offend you, don't include it when you circulate
> Lojban. If they're enough of an issue for you to present perfectly
> politically-correct documents, I'm sure the community wouldn't be
> terribly offended. Problem solved. ;)
>
>  
I still circulate the complete gismu list, and I've written some non-PC 
works in lojban, too. (For example, I wouldn't call my translation of 
Karin Dreijer's political, satirical song lyric _The Cop_ particularly 
PC) I just like that lojban makes it so easy to be PC compared to the 
latin languages, and I wanted to express my admiration for that (and my 
preference for non-gender-specific language (prenu instead of ninmu, etc)).

mi'e snan