Re: ash nazg on my pinky because it's too small

"Dan Sulani" nevesht:
>
>     Or, again, being contemptuous!  :-) And, would it be worse to
>intentionally use the wrong gender or to refer to the person with a
neutral
>gender? Under what conditions?
>There can be all sorts of shades of contempt!
>
One of my languages, Lisando(provisionally), has 5 genders(1:supernatural,
2:dangerous, 3:edible, 4:domestic, 5:other). Men are gender 2, women,
children and foreigners they dont respect are gender 4. Refering to a man in
their hearing as gender 4 is a serious insult.



-Wayne Chevrier







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