Subject: [lojban] Re: gismu are no different from other brivla! (was Re: lojban language names in jbovlaste)

From: Jordan DeLong <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:08:12 -0600

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:28:01PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:11:18PM -0600, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 05:46:31PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 05:45:41PM -0800, Theodore Reed wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:02:31 EST [email-masked] wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > how did italian not get its own gismu?  
> > > > 
> > > > This is why there's some amount of opposition to cultural gismu.
> > > 
> > > You mean, because they are stupid and arbitrary? 8)
> > 
> > Bah!
> > 
> > Make a fu'ivla. There's no reason every culture needs to have a
> > *gismu* in order for some to have a gismu
> 
> That was, for the record, my point.

Ah. It sounded like you were supporting the idea that there should
be either no cultural gismu or all cultural brivla should be gismu.

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