"angell.jared@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <angell.jared@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Oct 9, 10:27 am, ur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Michael Urban) wrote:
>> In article <1191925743.833558.20...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>
>> angell.ja...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<angell.ja...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> >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....
Actually, I suspect that those who have learned Lojban are of no
particular breed at all. One reason we have so little open talk in
Lojban is that the Lojbanists don't have enough in common to talk
about, other than the language itself.
If there was some other generality, it would be that there are too few
women learning the language, a fact that my wife deplores even while
being one of the four who started Lojban on the remnants of Loglan.
lojbab
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