[lojban] Summary: Cultural fu'ivla

[Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>]

I just wanted to sort of condense what we have been talking about here in a more compact fashion.  Essentially, the idea would be to (I've ordered the list logically, not temporally):

1) Chuck the cultural gismu (this seems to be an idea that has been around for awhile anyway, we just need good replacements).

2) Develop a new, much smaller set of gismu to cover things that were previously included in the cultural gismu, such as reflecting language/cultural/nationality in some respect.

3) For countries/territories: develop fu'ivla for the member states of the UN, along with other "important" areas (importance being based on an as-yet undetermined criterion).

4) For languages: develop fu'ivla based on the ISO code for the languages present in the 639-1 set of codes, but using their code as of the 639-3 revision.  (I think it would be cool to use the language family codes, as presented here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-2#Collective_language_codes), when filling out the fu'ivla.)

5) For religions: develop gismu that cover the world's major religions (probably with some artificial cut-off for number of adherents), (along with another couple gismu for "atheist" and something like "native beliefs/practices of x2"?)

6) For land masses: develop fu'ivla for either the seven continents as conventionally understood, or else for the major tectonic plates (which largely correlates with the continents, but leads to a bit more precision with a few more fu'ivla).  If we did go the plate route, we'd have to again have some sort of artificial cut-off TBD.

Hopefully that summary accurately represents the discussion thus far.

Since it seems like this project has stagnated in the past, I'm more than willing to head this up (in the coordinating-efforts way, not the making-decisions way) and start coming up with some of the fu'ivla, and get something set up on the wiki for people to contribute to.  But, before I do any of that, I'd like to make sure that a) people seem generally of the opinion that some change like this is probably a good idea, b) that this is the right way to go about it, and c) that folks are ok with a relative newbie like me taking point in coordinating things.  I certainly don't want to step on people's toes, but I'd also like to see this get done.

Chris

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