Re: Montanian
| From: | joe <josephhill@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 25, 2001, 19:21 |
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----- Original Message -----
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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