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adverbs to indicate whose standard is used
- To: lojban-list@lojban.org
- Subject: adverbs to indicate whose standard is used
- From: Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:50:00 -0400
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A friend of mine blogged the following:
"We need a couple of new adverbs (or maybe I just need to find existing
ones) that indicate whose definition of a word we are using: our's, our
subculture's, or society-at-large's. They need to be simple enough to
insert comfortably into casual conversation; single syllable, and
preferably not syllables that could be mistaken for other adverbs.
Why?
- I'd
like to be able to say 'I like foo-bad girls' without stopping to
explain that by foo-bad, I mean girls that society-at-large labels as
bad. In this case, because they are sexually agressive, but that was
implied in the conversation.
- There are lots of people out
there with no idea that there's a difference. Fundamentalism is built
(in part) on this misunderstanding. If the truth of it gets pushed into
language itself, they'll have to fight a lot harder to hide it.
Unfortunately, the 'foo' in reason 1 won't work; it's a metasyntactic
variable, already in heavy circulation among geeks. And I can't think
of any good ideas off the top of my head. Any ideas?"
The reason I'm sending this to the Lojban list is to ask, does Lojban
contain this feature or anything remotely similar? What is the best way
in Lojban, if any, to say what he is trying to say? If we provide a
Lojban word or term for this that can be dropped into conversation, it
might spread virally (who knows?) and anyone wondering about its
etymology would probably find out about the existence of Lojban.
-epkat