[lojban] Re: Philosophical differences.

[Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Minimiscience<minimiscience@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 3. Cultural gismu.
>>
>> Just fix it already.
>
> Yes, they need to be fixed, but how?  Should we add more cultural {gismu} or
> remove cultural {gismu}?  Should we completely reorganize the cultural {gismu}
> into a set of generic cultures and words for subdividing them into hierarchies
> in a way that will be seen as completely racist by our grandchildren?  Should
> we just leave it as it is and stick with flimsy excuses for why they shouldn't
> or don't need to be changed?  If you're complaining about a lack of a solution,
> perhaps you should suggest a solution of your own.

Alternatively, work within the baseline for as long as we have it
(note that post-gafyfantytei the language is not going to be changed
by fiat, but rather the LLG will be serving a descriptive function as
the language evolves; at that point in the hopefully-nearish future
everyone gets to vote for obsoleting vlagi by not using it, for
generalizing xagji by using it in ways that currently call for a
"pe'a", and so forth) by using fu'ivla for cultures and simply
ignoring the gismu. It won't make them go away, but it lets you
express all cultures using words of equal centralness to the language.


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