Re: My languages

>From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:45:50 -0500
>
>Uatakassi's genders, for those who haven't seen them:
>1. Sentient Female (sentient is defined as "language-using", and thus
>excludes infants and the mute)
>2. Sentient Male
>3. Sentient Epicene
>4. Animals associated with people (domestic animals, infants, mutes,
>pests, etc.)
>5. Other animal
>6. Other animate (some plants, fire, language, emotions, some body parts
>[body parts not in 6 have the same gender as their possessor], etc.)
>7. Inanimate
>
So what gender are infants and the mute?  If they aren't concidered sentient
are they gender 4???  That'd be pretty perverse, but the Utakassi are
primatives, aren't they?

Adam

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