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!