Re: Men vs Women on Conlang

 --- Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote: >
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
> > >
> > >She was Pamnerik of Teon, mistress of horses,
> slayer of kings, queen of
> the
> > >Black and Caspian Seas; death in her hands,
> foreseeing in her eyes,
> mastery
> > >in her sceptre, seduction and deceit on her lips,
> justice on her throne.
> > >:)
> >
> > Thanks for the info! Anyway, is it just me, or did
> she, appart from a
> > Captain Caveman attitude to politics, have a
> suspiciously male-sounding
> > name? "Pamnerik" sounds more like the name of a
> midevil Germanic chieftain
> > than of an ancient Queen.
>
> What would one call that?  Phonetically
> ethnocentric?  :)  "Pamnerik" is a
> character from a long lost novel I wrote when I was
> about fourteen (total
> crap), about one of the Feleonim, the winged cats
> that I used to dwell on.
> She was a warrior feline.  Appropriated by humans,
> her name means "Red
> River," and can refer to the carnage she leaves
> behind or her own fatal
> menstruation.  She is different, however, from the
> Goddess of War and
> Strategy.  She has become euhemerized; and yes, she
> is a medieval, actually
> ancient, Chieftain.  Queens can be chieftains.  <G>
>
>
to be honest, the name sounds to me like what you
would call the offspring of erik and pamela . . .

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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