TECH: lujvo : tutuear

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Subject:      Re: Tutear (anyone wanna make some lujvo???)

Mark opined and Jorge agreed that "tutear" did not need a lujvo.  I will
agree that it does not need a SHORT lujvo.  However, it is a concept
that is not limited to one language, or even a family of languages - the
habit of addressing some individuals with a formal pronoun (I don't know
if it is always the same as the 2nd person plural) and others with a
familiar pronoun.  If you want to talk about the general phenomenon, you
can't go using the equivalent of "calling someone 'tu'".

We need a good lujvo for 'address' (i.e. vocatively talking to some
one).  If we have this lujvo, then (if we could rely on the English
description of what is going on) slabydon-[address] vs
clitydon-[address] would be satisfactory

Given that one of the most common lojbo tertavla is languages, both
Lojban and other languages, I am not satisfied with the argument that a
feature not present in Lojban does not need a word in Lojban.  If
nothing else, how do you say in Lojban that it does not have the
feature?

lojbab

lojbab