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Re: Láadan and woman's speak

From:DOUGLAS KOLLER <laokou@...>
Date:Monday, May 22, 2000, 2:36
From: "John Cowan"

> Raymond Brown scripsit:
> > (1) while in English we can speak about one's native country as > > "fatherland" _or_ "mother-land",
> I always thought it would be interesting to construct a table of > "fatherland" languages (e.g. German), "motherland" languages (e.g. > Russian), and either-or languages (e.g. English).
And neither-nor languages. Chinese has "zu3guo2" (in Japanese "sokoku") referring to the ancestral land, or at the very least, the grandparents' land. Kou