Re: Arabic article (was: Corpses)

--- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:

> 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 :-)
You're forgiven, cos you mentioned corpses at
least twice. :)

Though, unfortunately, you mentioned them in a
thread about Arabic articles, so you're really
way off topic!

Padraic.


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