Re: Genderless Lingo

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:

> > They are a warlike race, but also have a high sense of honor.
>
> Hmm, hermaphroditic Klingons?  ;-)
As a science fiction afficionado (but not writer -- I've given up *grins*)
I have to say that I distrust such simplistic definitions of an entire
species as "warlike."  Are humans warlike?  Then what does one make of
quakers, Gandhi, and H. D. Thoreau?  If you mean they're *more* warlike
than humans, how the hell did they ever get enough technology to manage
space travel before they destroyed themselves?

> > But they would look at the other races genders as forms of the
> > race or seperate? Maybe a word for alien or sentient (l;ike
> > themselves, but different) or just adopted the names for each
> > group (man or women, or human with some modification like
> > Human-strong for male and Human-care or like word for a human
> > female.
>
> Well, they'd probably have a word for "alien".  Perhaps they'd use
> something like "producer" for "female" and "contributor" for "male".
> Perhaps they might also borrow words for "man" and "woman" as well.  But
> they'd probably need a word for male and female.
The advena borrow the word for "human": umn - "to be human".