Re: TRANS: a child's exercise

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.

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