Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded? "YerUgly Mug," etc.

Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Aha!  So a conlang urgently needs a syntactical difference between
> genitive and possessive.
Post-Classical Uatakassi used the dative to show genitive when the
"possessed" was a person of higher status than the "possessor".  E.g.:

Tlikan   tiMusian-af
Daughter Dawn    -gen
"Dawn's daughter"

Tinani tiMusian-az
Mother Dawn    -dat
"Dawn's mother"

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