Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban Kids Show - names

[Brian Robertson <raposa.msscripting@gmail.com>]

>    holy crap, yeah, I was making a joke.  naturally a "female lad" is an
>    impossible thing since "lad" means "male child".
>    Why is space a masculine thing?
>    I know one of lojban's things is "neutrality" but sometimes it seems like
>    we work really really hard to counter-act against bias.  At what point are
>    we spending an un-balanced amount of time worrying about balance?
>    Sometimes I think that as a culture we worry too much about these things
>    and we end up over-thinking things.  I was reading one of those dear-abbey
>    style columns the other day and a mother was concerned because her young
>    boy was calling her by her name instead of "mom".  A long drawn out
>    speculation ensues by the mother about how the parents are a mixed
>    ethnicity couple and maybe the kid is experiencing confusion [etc...].  In
>    reality the kid probably saw an episode of the simpsons and thought that
>    it was funny when bart called his dad by his first name.
>    </rant>
Plus fucking one!

Cheers, lorx.

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