Re: Simple translation exercise?

LOL!  Well, even if there's only one crocuta crocuta -style species among the
mammals, I think we've started to even the score, at least fictiously.

Way to go, Bro!

Wesley Parish

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 10:39, you 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
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