Re: Conlang Gender (was Re: Writing Systems and BiscriptalChildren

"Grandsire, C.A." wrote:

>         I suppose they are arbitrary, as IIRC Lojban is supposed to have his
> words coming from natlangs (well, after many distorsions that's true :)
> ).
Just so.  Of course, calling them "genders" at all is rather twisted.
What's really happening is that you can use a letter of the alphabet as
a pronoun, as is done in mathematics:  "bolci" (ball) can be represented
by "by" (the name of the letter "b").  So there is the b-gender, the d-gender,
etc. etc.

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