On Oct 9, 10:27 am, ur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Michael Urban) wrote:
> In article <1191925743.833558.20...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> angell.ja...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<angell.ja...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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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.
True. but my understanding is that most people so far who have
bothered to learn Lojban are kind of a different breed....
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