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Re: [lojban] Help: sexual words
At 07:05 PM 06/02/2000 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
Going over this thread, I see that we need either a decree from those on high
(who dat?) or a recognition of usage or something to sort out the various
uses of gletu and cinse -- and maybe pendo and prami -- to deal with the
various ways in which people are sexual/gendered/ socialized and express
same.
I figure about 5 years of baselining oughta enable enough different
cultures to get their re fepni in to have some bare minimal hope for us to
sort this out in a more culturally neutral manner.
There are some issues that are simply too hot to handle until we can handle
them talking only in Lojban with speakers from a dozen cultures including a
couple non-European ones. Until then, we don't really know what the words
mean (we may know some things about what the words don't mean, but that
tends to be the sort of stuff you can tell from place structures).
Good topic for LogFest, if there is interest. (Not to say we can't talk
about it on Lojban List).
lojbab
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