Re: A Conlang, created by the group?

De: Pablo Flores <fflores@...>
Fecha: Viernes 9 de Octubre de 1998 10:54

>What makes a noun "northern" or "eastern"? I'm curious.
>Indeed we have to consider that, but there's no need to morphologically
_mark_
>gender on nouns. We could leave it on articles (are we having them?).
And what makes a noun masculine or femenine?... I could imagine for a
European conculture a chilling wind is northern and a warm wind is western.
Al other disctintions would be arbitrary.

Would our gender system be arbitrary or logic?  I would vote for a logic one
but in a twisted way, like sounding, yelling, white, wet and sourronding,
and any noun concept that does not fit in any of those categories would be
asigning an arbitrary one.  And logic does not need to be too physical.
River would be sounding reather than wet, and sea would be sourounding, but
water would indeed be wet.

(my previous gender system was to classificatory... please drop it, but I
like the idea of subgenders =)

-- Carlos Th