Re: active, passive, homo, heet.....eeek

christopher carter wrote:
>
> What is all this passive/active stuff?  Can Phalaeran with it's open views
> on sexuality toward "passiveness" help Joe's language become "active"?
Why
> is Maarten suggesting the word 'heet' to help create an active state?  Is
> the word's etymology by chance related to 'heterosexual'?  Does that make
> "active" Phalaeren men more straight?  But the real question....
> does that mean that Maarten ('Ik heet Maarten')  is indeed "active"?
Wel,  as I explained in another threat recently, "heten" is a copula in
dutch, so "Maarten" is not a direct object in this sentence, but a nominal
part of the verb clause, and on equal footing with the subject. This suggest
an active role for "Maarten", imo.

Maarten

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