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Re: Montanian

From:joe <josephhill@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 25, 2001, 19:21
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From: "Nik Taylor" <fortytwo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: Montanian


> joe wrote: > > Not exactly, Khu, means person, but if you must distinguish, which > > they rarely do, plain khu means man, and tallak khu means woman. > > So it *is* a default male, then. But, what if one needed to say "man", > and making it clear that one meant specifically a male adult human > being? Would one have to say "Not-breasted man", "Man, not Breasted > Man" or what? >
It ias considered impolite to differentate, so I'll try to avoid anything like that. To say tallak khu is considered impolite to say to anyone.

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Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>