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Re: [lojban] Gender, yet again.





On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:03 PM, vitci'i <celestialcognition@gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/13/2012 04:57 PM, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Stereotypes aren't imaginary. They're derogatory, insulting, and WRONG.

What's the difference between something that's imaginary and something
that's not true?

Many kinds of things can be not true without being imaginary: opinions, sentences, stereotypes, 

stevo 


> Except that's not the way we do things. The meaning of the English "gender"
> is so broad it covers /completely unrelated/ concepts.
>
> There is nothing wrong with having a word in Lojban that covers a wide
> berth- that's what the intention of the gismu is, after all.
>
> But we do /not/ have words that cover multiple concepts. That defeats the
> purpose of the language.

What set of words do you suggest?

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