[lojban] Re: ZOI and culture neutrality

[Hugh O'Byrne <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

One particular point jumped out at me from this post...

Maxim Katcharov wrote:
> It is expected that the biologist would know what is in those la'o
> quotes, just as the linguist would know the IPA, or as the layman know
> the simple transliteration-into-Lojban. These ZOI are specifically
> intended for any case where the audience is expected to be interested
> in the non-Lojban.

Good point, good point.  Lojban does not specify kingdom, phylum, class, 
order, family, genus and species classifications; it leaves that to the 
experts in the relavent field (biology).

But then, Lojban doesn't have any particular structure in place for 
making distinctions in biology.  It does have the ZOI structure for 
other languages, *all* other languages.  It seems only appropriate to 
take advantage of the expertise of those whose field of study is, *all* 
spoken languages, to make ZOI as complete as it can be.

A bit rushed now, but I liked that point and wanted to respond.

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