Re: Interesting discoveries

--- Estel Telcontar <estel_telcontar@...>
wrote:

> > this is where you need to explore
> > their culture some, if there is one
>
> Well, the new incarnation of the language,
> Ikanirae Seru, is spoken by
> a group of children who invented it to be the
> language of the "kingdom"
> they organized for themselves...
Naturally that could pose some problems for the
concultural approach!


> Differences include things like the three words
> for different kinds of
> foods - solid food, liquid food with pieces,
> and liquid food without pieces,
Now, I líke that one!

> and the fact that the pronoun system
> does not encode
> masculine/feminine distinctions, but rather
> distinctions of - roughly, at least - animacy.
A sort of "people" v. "thing" distinction. I
suspect that hosts of immaginary beings, stuffed
animals, animals in general and probably a whole
host of other "things" would be considered
animate.


> > Are you sure they aren't Daine? When Daine
> > wear much of anything at all, it is a "raka".
>
> Could be, for all I know!
Do they have wings?

Padraic.


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