Re: So-called Alternative Lifestyles (was Unconventional pronoun systemsshow us yours!)

* Scotto Hlad said on 2004-09-06 20:37:17 +0200
> While I eschew political correctness, I'm curious how conlangers have
> handled the emergence of so-called alternative lifestyles. [..]
>
> That being said, I want to have a broader world view with my a-priori
> conlang, Vystoulor. I know that so many cultures have the 'us' &
> 'them' ideas. (Greek/Barbari; Hebrew/Goyische etc) I want the
> vystoulorian community to not only be inclusive of so-called
> 'alternative lifestyles' I want to show that they are inherent to
> their community.
Terahoans (one of the many cultures hthat sometimes use Taruven) has a
weird take on 'us' and 'them': there are proper, tolerant people and
/Sig:aen/, ciggaen, intolerant foreigners. This in contrast with the now
more or less dead imperial cultures, many who were extremely racist and
elitist, and the Charen method of having many parallel cultures
(hopefully peacefully) interacting.

The reason for the Terahoans' well-working multi-cultural salad is to be
found in history; the founders were, simply put, not exactly
conservative. And since the afore-mentioned founders are for all
practical purposes immortal and still in charge, it has stayed not
exactly conservative; though it is a real challenge to be young and
attempt to be alternative when the guy running the city sees laws as
something that needs to be broken so that one can play with the soo cute
riot-police (after all, they might get out of shape if they don't get to
practice right? Only doing it out of the goodness of his heart, and for
the thrill of being chased of course), and the it in charge of the
miltary caste goes away for years to investigate the new mind states
possible by experimenting a little with chemistry or embark on a
centuries-long study on how to best make ice-sculptures in frozen
nitrogen; basically the older they get the weirder they get.


t.