Marriage, etc.

["Lee Daniel Crocker (none)" <lcrocker@MERCURY.COLOSSUS.NET>]

> Also, how would one propose marriage in Lojban?  I couldn't find the
> concept properly expressed in the gismu list.  I thought perhaps
> something like "lanzu finti" (family type of inventing) but that sounds
> really bad.

I can't find the concept of agreement/pact/contract of any kind in
the gismu list.   "le te bilga" is close, and has places for the
agreement and its obligations, but not for the parties.  Otherwise,
"family type-of contract" would be natural.  On top of that, even
if there were an appropriate brivla, I can't find one for the act of
"consent" either, so I can't ask her to.  If there were a brivla
for agree/consent, it could be used to form lujvo for contract/pact
and marriage

As an aside, I shudder to think what kind of society might evolve
from a language where granting permission is a root concept but
mutual consent is not :)

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