From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Jun 02 19:01:08 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10099 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2000 02:01:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 3 Jun 2000 02:01:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-4.cais.net) (205.252.14.74) by mta3 with SMTP; 3 Jun 2000 02:01:07 -0000 Received: from bob (dynamic78.cl7.cais.net [205.177.20.78]) by stmpy-4.cais.net (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e53215527147; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 22:01:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lojbab@lojban.org) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000602215400.00b36b60@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 22:01:59 -0400 To: pycyn@aol.com, lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Help: sexual words In-Reply-To: <15.49efd9c.266997a6@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 07:05 PM 06/02/2000 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote: >Going over this thread, I see that we need either a decree from those on high >(who dat?) or a recognition of usage or something to sort out the various >uses of gletu and cinse -- and maybe pendo and prami -- to deal with the >various ways in which people are sexual/gendered/ socialized and express >same. I figure about 5 years of baselining oughta enable enough different cultures to get their re fepni in to have some bare minimal hope for us to sort this out in a more culturally neutral manner. There are some issues that are simply too hot to handle until we can handle them talking only in Lojban with speakers from a dozen cultures including a couple non-European ones. Until then, we don't really know what the words mean (we may know some things about what the words don't mean, but that tends to be the sort of stuff you can tell from place structures). Good topic for LogFest, if there is interest. (Not to say we can't talk about it on Lojban List). lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org