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Re: OT: Gender Bending Moro

From:Fan de Condorcet <condorcetfan@...>
Date:Saturday, April 2, 2005, 15:13
David,

Hehe, you woke up late, and I woke up early.  Finding your message about
gender was quite the treat for me this morning.

You wrote:

[ . . . ]

> > Well, as it turns out, Moro, a real language, does *exactly* the > opposite. > > ombja = boy > Ne4a = girl > lembja = boys > Je4a = girls *or* children (e.g., 100 boys and 1 girl, or all boys, too) >
To say this is interesting is an understatement. Now I really want to know about Moro's pronouns. Does it have feminine pronouns? Masculine? Neuter? Is there a feminine pronoun that can be used in a gender neutral sense, as the masculine pronoun in English supposedly does or did? I won't hold it against you if you don't have the answers to these questions, but I just *had* to try to find out. [ . . . ]
> > Anyway, I just wanted to share that datum, and maybe spark > a discussion of gender/noun classification in conlangs. Now > I'll try to go to sleep... *shudder*
Pleasant dreams. CF