Re: My languages
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 1, 2001, 4:05 |
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Adam Walker wrote:
> Another view that has many real world anteceedants. So it would be the
> mentally retarded and severely autistic that would be classed as
> non-sentient?
If they're non-communicative, yes. I never claimed that they were a
Utopian society. :-)
Actually, there are some dialects that are even more restrictive on what
"sentient" means. Namely, "free adult", so that children (even speaking
children) and slaves are not classified as sentient.
Incidentally, one word for "slave" literally means "half-person"
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