Re: Lojban: You're Doing it Worng (was: Re: [lojban] la .alis.)

[Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 14:08, Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com> wrote:

I think that only those cultures that are directly relevant to Lojban should
have {gismu}, i.e., Lojban itself ({lojbo}) and the six source languages
({glico}, {jungo}, {rusko}, {spano}, {xindo}, & {xrabo}).  The {gismu} for the
continents can also stay, but I don't think they really count as cultural
{gismu} in the first place.  The remaining cultural {gismu} should be
deprecated and/or removed and their {rafsi} freed up.

If this were done (which I actually think is not a bad idea), though, one would need to change the definition of these terms, as they're being included based on language, not culture--the gismu ought to be something like "reflects the English language" and not "culture," or else you've lost any sense of cultural neutrality.

Although, now that I think about it, I'm not sure how useful a term like "xindo" is if we're being neutral--what's Chinese?  Is Tibet?  Or people who speak a non-Tibeto-Burman language and live way in the western part of China and don't speak Mandarin?

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