Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Cognitive-linguistic mapping essay/reply (16)

Actually, the reason I thought of Lojban was because apparently you can't get offended in it. You can say "go suck a donkey's dick you fucker" and it doesn't really mean anything apart from "instruction: place your mouth around target object. target object: donkey's penis". Apparently this counts as civility. The fact that discussions in Lojban have apparently been very "civil" I think chalks up to the fact that people in those discussions were the sort of people who learn Lojban, and not due to the language itself being free of ambiguity. It might well be in syntax, but actual semantics? Really? I mean, you're still going to generate an idea of what it is to suck a donkey's dick, you might well infer that it's an insult because of this, much in the same way that all taboo and profanity seems related to the same thing. So even if someone did say in a soulless monotone way "instruction: place your mouth around target object. target object: donkey's penis", you might still be obligated to reply "instruction: place your penis inside target object, target object: your mother's reproductive organs". So it starts. A bit like the euphemism treadmill but more hilarious.