Re: Basic vocabulary when starting a conlang

bn wrote:
>not necessarily. if you have a conculture with either
>no sexes or more than two, then man and woman aren's
>useful concepts. bac isn't based on a conculture, but
>as i'm atheist it doesn't have a word for god ( it
>borrows specific religions' terms when it needs to
>refer to their deities, and would probably nick the
>latin |deo| if referring to the western concept of god
Just a nitpick; clearly it's whether the conculture, not the conculturer, is
atheistic that's relevant to whether the conlang has a native word for
"god".

                                                   Andreas

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