Re: le fetsi lojbo [was Re: nu lojbo tavla]

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On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Robin Turner wrote:

> From: Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>
> 
> la xorxes cusku di'e
> 
> >
> > i no'i ca'a zasti fa loi fetsi tadni be la lojban i ku'i ra
> > jikte'amli gi'enai sezyjarco
> 
> This applies to most e-mail lists, which tend to have a "masculine" (note
> scare quotes) discourse style (for more on gender and discourse, see Robin
> Lakoff and/or Deborah Tannen). However, dialogue on the Lojban list isn't
> nearly as bad in this respect as many others - at least we have no flame
> wars here!
> 
> I was wondering if the overall image of Lojban might also be off-putting,
> which gets us back to the "logical language" point. There is an (illogical)
> association in many cultures along the lines of logic-male / emotion-female,
> which may result in Lojban having a bit of a "masculine" image, or a desexed
> Mr. Spock-like one (for more of my thoughts on gender and logic, see
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8309/malelogic.html ). However, I
> don't think the answer to this problem is to try and present Lojban in a
> more "touchy-feely" way (though one could) but to challenge those ideas in
> society at large.



We certainly could present Lojban as the "emotional language", what with
all those attitudinals. Considering that males and females are the way
they are right now, perhaps exploration of this side might be worth
looking in to. Aren't we attracting logical types primarily right now?
People with a love or ability for heavy symbol processing, refugees from
English because it is too ambiguous -- not because it is not expressive
enough!


> 
> co'o mi'e robin.
> 
> 
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