Re: Simple translation exercise?

My Trelkairni are similar too.  The females are close
to 7 feet tall and built like Shaquile O'Neil.  the
males are around 5' 6" on average.  The females give
birth to the offspring, but then it is the male's
responsibility to care for the infants including
feeding by regurgitation.  The Trelkairni, while
otherwise very mamiloid do not have mamaries in either
sex.  The women hold all the cards.  Even in the early
2300's males do not have the vote and are veiwed by
the law as only slightly more than property.  They
aren't slaves.  They can initiate divorce prceedings,
but the divorce will not be granted without the wife's
consent.  Children go to the mother without question
except in the most extrodinary cases.  Males are not
permitted in the preisthood, government, military or
many other occupations beyond cottage industries,
governitos, secretaries, servant-type occupations and
the world's oldest profession.

Unfortunately, I don't know anything about the
Trelkairini languages.

Adam
--- Jake X <starvingpoet@...> wrote:
> ['wEsli r\oUt]:
> > The word |liyhita| - "midwife" translates "Queen",
> but then Lakhabrech are
> a
> > matriarchy - with women about 6 foot plus, and men
> about 5 and a half feet
> > plus, a la crocuta crocuta (spotted hyena) - so I
> figured it all came out
> > even.
> Finally someone after my own tastes.  The Mocteno
> are a matriarchy too, or
> at least a matri- something.  Most of the grammar is
> based on their idea
> of female superiority, and they derive their
> masculine gender from the
> inanimate one of the protolanguage. ;-)  I'm so
> mean.  I couldn't get away
> with it if I weren't a man myself.
>
> Jake