Re: Chapter 4

[Michael Urban <cbmvax!uunet!hercules!rand.org!urban>]

Excerpts from mail: 7-Jun-91 Re: Chapter 4 John Cowan@uunet.UU.NET (2150)

> Note the distinction between "se panzi", the genetic parents; "se jbena",
> the birth mother; and "rirni", the functional parents.  In the age of
> adoption, in vitro fertilization, embryo transfer, and other such things,
> these persons are often distinct.

Making these distinctions, significant only in such an `age', basic to
the language would seem to me to strain Lojban's claims of cultural
neutrality.  Sort of like the sproverbial Eskimo making up a `neutral'
language with three or four words in it for `snow'.

	Mike