Re: di'e preti zo nu

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Robin Turner wrote:

> I also find {lo'e} and {le'e} a bit confusing.  {lo'e} is described in the cmavo
> list as "the typical one(s) that really is (are) ..." which implies that we have
> a (subjective) judgement of typicality on top of on objective classification.

Actually no.  There are plenty of typical attributes that are not
subjective: i.e. the typical lion lives in Africa, the typical
person has two eyes and one nose, the typical Greek has dark hair,
the typical bird flies, etc. etc. etc.

> {le'e} is "the stereotype of those described as ..." which implies an objective
> stereotypicality (since one person cannot create a stereotype) on top of a
> subjective classification.  Confusing indeed.

"Stereotype" is acknowledged to be a poor term.  It really means
"IMHO-typical", and is tied to individual opinion as "le" is.

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