Re: Kalini Sapak - new lang

Muke Tever wrote:
>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.
I imagine that among the Kalana saying _su kuzali_ "she is womanly" is
common way to express respect and/or admiration for a woman. It implies that
she conforms to the Kalana ideal of femininity (or in other words is
beautiful, hard-working and obedient). Similarly, saying _su tuhaku_ "he is
manly" about a man implies that he's brave, strong and loyal.

                                                      Andreas

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