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angell.jared@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<angell.jared@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Ido appears to be regular, phonetic, and not as based in religious
>mores as it's fellow family members (Europeans languages). Words such
>as '****', in my opinion, should not exist. If you want to say 'a
>women who sleeps with many men' there should be no negative
>connotation associated with it in the age of contraception, single
>moms and large divorce rate. That is just one example, but a very
>good one, about what pisses me off about English.
>
Just to address the specific point, I would argue that a word
like '****' should exist, but that it should be equally possible
to have a deprecatory word for a virgin, as it is in Esperanto
(and, presumably, Ido).
With usage, however, you will almost certainly end up with slang terms
that reflect the cultural mores of the speakers. Languages do not
exist in a vacuum.
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