Re: Etabnannimizing Tsiressa Orthography
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 20:47 |
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On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 23:26:38 +0100 Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
writes:
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Christophe Grandsire
> <christophe.grandsire@F...> wrote:
> > My way to break stereotypes at that time was to put them on their
> > head ;))) .
> I always hated the "-a is feminine" stereotype, especially since
> my (male!) pseudonym is "Cinga". =)))
> That's why Obrenje nicknames tend to end in -a for males and
> -i for females. I consider -i so much more feminine than -a.
> -- Christian Thalmann
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Rokbeigalmki pronouns (most of the singular ones borrowed straight from
ool-Nuziiferoi) represent male as |o| and female as |i|. Originally i
had the female affix be |a-|, and had a whole rationalization of how it
evolved from |i-|, but then i decided it wasn't original enough so i
changed it to |i-|. Which is also, incidentally, how Rokbeigalmki got
its phonological glottal stop.
a minimal pair:
|i bardh| /i ba4D/ = 'and a parent'
|i-bardh| /?i ba4D/ = 'a female parent'
-Stephen (Steg)
"armu."
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