Re: Another question: genders

"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> Any comments/suggestions? "ambivalent" sounds OK to me, but "ambiguous"
> seems somewhat awkward. (It does happen to sound like "ambivalent", that's
> why I chose it in the first place.) I've seen a related word somewhere
> that uses omni- but I forgot the exact word. (omniline? ominine? anybody
> knows?)
Well, epicene means "either gender" or "mixed groups", that would work
for your "ambiguous".  Your "ambivalent" is kind of an unusual gender.
From what you describe, I suppose something like "collective" might
work.  Could you describe it in greater detail?

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