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Re: Kalini Sapak - new lang

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Friday, July 20, 2001, 0:22
From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
> >>Obviously, there's no such form as **_kuzalu_ "(he) is womanly"! > > > >What about that feminine guy in the HR department? :) > > Apart from that the Kalana (I guess I should be refering to the speakers
in
> the accusative case - the genitive of course occurs in the lang's name) > don't have any HR departments, I guess you actually could say _su kuzalu_ > "he is womanly", but it'd be really insulting to the guy refered to
(saying
> _su tuhaki_ "she is manly" about a woman wouldn't be nice either, but
hardly
> as insulting). But since lexicographers generally are nice people, they'd > use the non-insulting and much commoner feminine form, despite that the > masculine present is normally considered the lexical form.
*Is* it commoner to say that a woman is like a woman than it is to say a man is like a woman? Hmm, or maybe it's in saying that a woman isn't being womanly. Either way'd be an interesting cultural point. (Reminds me of seeing an English verb conjugated in a multilingual dictionary online: It listed all the person and tense forms, like "I am melting", "We are melting", "You are melting".... "I have melted"...) *Muke!