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shanoxilt · 4099 days ago · link · · parent · post: A Geeky Problem: Queer Terminology for a Constructed Language
- Gender and sex are confusing as hell in modern languages, I don't think German differentiates the two concepts by noun at all, and English common usage doesn't really differentiate too much
The current Lojban gismu {cinse} has this problem. It doesn't distinguish between orientation or gender:
cinse x1 in activity/state x2 exhibits sexuality/gender/sexual orientation x3 (ka) by standard x4.
There have been small discussions about changing this or creating a compound word to separate them, but little has come of it.
- They have no idea. Transgendered isn’t a word, because ‘to transgender’ doesn’t make sense.
In Lojban, as in many parts of English, all gismu are both nouns and verbs; more accurately, they are logical predicates of arguments.
- Variant sexes is going way too far until you can express the basics well enough. Can I guess 95%+ of Lojban speakers are male?
I would assume so, but based on the activity on my Twitter feed, the ones doing the most creative work are cisgender women.
- Orgasm/Climax is JUST sexual release?
What else is it? >.>