Re: Simple translation exercise?
| From: | Aquamarine Demon <aquamarine_demon@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 19, 2003, 7:29 |
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>>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@P...> 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<<
Personally, I find the idea of a matriarchy odd, since no known culture
has truly had one. My conlang's not associated with a conculture, but I've
nevertheless paid attention to gender. I've tried to make it pretty gender
equal. For an example, the word that would be translated as "kingdom" in
English would be "shukuho" (shuku- ruler, monarch -ho, place noun).
Just my two cents...
Noelle
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