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Re: TRANS: a child's exercise

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, September 9, 1999, 2:45
FFlores wrote:
> About the fact of no birthday gifts... > are there celebrations of any kind? Do the Kass=ED celebrate any partic=
ular
> dates in their lives? [Move to Conculture if need it!]
Yes, there are celebrations for certain special points in life: Birth (obviously) First Word (that is, when the child says his/her first word) - one of the greatest celebrations by the parents, for at that point the child ceases to be an animal, and becomes a person Six Years - at this point, the child goes from being a "Language-Learner" or "Young Child" (Pyas=FAnga, from Pyas=FAn, to lear= n +=20 sag=E1, to speak) to being a Child (nasapid=ED, from pid=ED, young) The Agony - Basically, without going into detail, puberty compressed=20 into a few weeks; transition to Adulthood First Child - Considered an equally important as First Word and the Agony However, everyone's actually born within a few weeks of each other, like many non-human animals, they have a specific breeding season, and therefore a specific birthing season.
> I don't think it's that long, and certainly not 'lamentably long'. > It's longer, probably, because you've chosen to have a quite=20 > restrictive phonology *and* a (poly?)synthetic grammar with compulsory = > agreement marks (and of other types, like INCH... aspect?).
True, I suppose I exagerated it, I just wish I could get it more compressed without changing the phonology or grammar too much, but probably impossible. INCH means Inchoative, I suppose I should've defined more abbreviations. --=20 "If all Printers were determin'd not to print any thing till they were sure it would offend no body, there would be very little printed" - Benjamin Franklin http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ #: 18656696 AIM screen-name: NikTailor