Re: Arabic article (was: Corpses)

>Isidora was speaking about how this thread, being OT, was the only one that
>stuck to its stated topic. Now, this has mutated from a discussion of cultural
>views on human corpses to one about the treatment of Arabic articles in
>English ... we better watch out before it's back to conlangs!
It may be too late for that.  I have already put conlang content into a
post on the Visible Planets thread, which is an offshoot of the Corpses
thread, by talking some about Nidirino phonology.

I can't believe that I started a thread this extensive.  I just asked which
logical gender a human corpse ought to belong to.  I think that my answer
for the Cwendaso was epicene.  I don't think that the Trehelish lanuage has
the same gender catagories as the Cwendaso language, so I don't know how
they would gender one, although they do believe that there is something
still living in it.

Oops.  I think that I might have just brought this thread back to
conlanging by including the words "gender" and "epicene" in the body of the
text.  Please forgive me the offense :-)

Isidora

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