Re: New Arvorec words

En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

>
> In any natlang?
> Among the Kash (and I have a hard time imagining this), same-sex
> relationships, both casual and long-term (officially recognized) are
> completely acceptable; and gay men and women are completely integrated
> into
> society.  About the only folks who really worry about having an
> exclusively
> gay son or daughter are the very wealthy, old-money types, who are more
> concerned about how it might affect inheritance and trust funds than
> anything else. (Perpetual trusts are permitted, so it _is_ rather
> important
> to have an heir.) And even in those cases, the son/daughter would
> probably
> manage somehow to produce the heir.
> About 10% of males are exclusively homosexual, another 10% or so want
> nothing at all to do with it.  Everyone in between is essentially
> bisexual
> to one degree or another.  (Sorry to ignore the women, but they're a
> little
> more complicated to explain.)  So if you feel you need to know about
> someone, you would simply ask them:  lani halalisam, sinut luma? 'which
> do
> you prefer, man, woman?' to which the answer might be:  umundi, sinut
> (or,
> luma) 'generally, a man (or, a woman)' Or perhaps, na, travirap 'I'm not
> sure', ta yale kracal 'it's not a problem', me kuwa-kuwa 'it's all the
> same
> to me',  or, na, macetre, mo...pani-panip 'well, I'm married, but...I
> play
> around'.  One of the exclusive 10% might answer, a, mam, virap naya sit
> (laugh) 'oh, as for me, I'm definitely third gender'.
> Another self-designation is: mavorat tungar kandroka 'I belong to the
> Kandrok clan/tribe'-- Kandrok being a large island with a varied and
> rather
> primitive population (called Kadrok, Kár@duk etc. in other languages)--
> but
> the Kash form just happens to be the agent-noun of trok 'f*ck'.
>
> The disapproving 10% might refer to someone as belonging to: tutuk
> turi-turi
> 'the birdie club'.   That's about as pejorative as we get, so far.
>
Really?!!! What a perfect tolerant society!!! I want to move to where the Kash
live!!! :) .

Just one question: do they have an equivalent to our marriage, open to everyone
(like is civil marriage in the Netherlands)?

Christophe.

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