Re: Montanian
| From: | joe <josephhill@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 24, 2001, 15:44 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: Montanian
> Quoting Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>:
>
> > joe wrote:
> > > Actually, there is no default gender, khu can mean woman just as
> > > much as man.
> >
> > Then how do you specify "man"?
>
> Well, what's the society like? Maybe being specific about
> gender roles is taboo in their society, just like talking
> about in-laws is taboo in many Australian aboriginal languages.
>
Not exactly, Khu, means person, but if you must distinguish, which they rarely do,
plain khu means man, and tallak khu means woman.
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