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Re: Simple translation exercise?

From:Jake X <starvingpoet@...>
Date:Sunday, June 15, 2003, 4:24
['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

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