Re: [lojban] Re: No Italy

[Timothy Hobbs <tim.thelion@gmail.com>]

that seems a bit rude.  I am preity sure it is the other way around.  (spanish 
is a dialect of italian.).  It is also quite incorrect.  You could have new 
latin and western new latin,  BUT NOT EASTERN SPANISH!  It is just plain 
wrong.  and also eastern spanish would not properly represent the cultures 
involved.  and seems quite offensive.  (ie,  genericide of celibrated 
diferences).

I don't accualy know anything.  that responce was wholy from the emotional 
side of my brain.

On Saturday 19 August 2006 06:22, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> Yanis Batura wrote:
> > I wonder why there is no gismu for Italy/Italian while there are
> > {jordo}, {filso}, {libjo}, {lubno}. I think Italians can provide 1000
> > times more Lojbanists than the countries pertaining to the latter four
> > gismu.
>
> Arguably you could make a lujvo from latmo (and indeed that was our idea
> at the time).
>
> The answer to your question is that Italy does not speak one of the 6
> source languages, whereas the four you mentioned do.  Based solely on
> cultural neutrality, it was difficult to find a reason NOT to make a
> gismu for any country with a substantial number of Arabic speakers,
> especially since Arabic qualified as one of our 6 languages only by
> counting the speakers in the many different countries that spoke the
> language.
>
> If you want to be really culturally obtuse, you could call Italian
> "eastern-Spanish", since we almost counted Italian as a dialect of
> Spanish for weighting purposes in the language populations %^)
>
> Or you can make a fu'ivla, which has been the idea ever since we worked
> out a system for fu'ivla lujvo.
>
> lojbab
>
>
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