Re: Corpses (WAS: Arabic article (was: Corpses))

>Most of my conlangs don't have the category of gender, and those that have it
>restrict it to pronouns, except for Kalini Sapak.
Cwendaso, the language for which I originally brought up this question, has
gender only on the pronouns and the agreement markers on the verbs, which
fulfill a pronominal function.

I think this thread is starting to get back to conlanging.

>  Intellectually, very few
>Tairezans believe that a human corpse is anything more than lump of organic
>stuff, but being humans their intellects are not necessarily the pieces of
>their minds in command immediately after the death of a loved one.
Naturally not.

>None of my conlangs do have a word for "corpse" yet, BTW.
Then maybe a corpse needs to make an appearance in the Weekly Vocab.  What
happened to the Weekly Vocab?  I haven't seen it lately.

None of my conlangs have a word for one, either, but the religion of each
of my concultures figures prominantly in making the people who they are,
and ideas about death and the afterlife tend to be an important part of
religion.  What the Nidirino believe about death and the afterlife, I have
no idea.  I need to fix that, but so far I haven't been able to come up
with any good ideas for a culture whose primary deity is locked in a
struggle with Death.  They believe that the Sun is more powerful than
Death...but surely they cannot have failed to have noticed that every
single human being ever born dies.  What would such a culture believe about
the afterlife?

Isidora

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