Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> > I've not yet got a Tairezazh word for "parent", so we'll go the
> really
> weird
> > way:
> >
> > Mana ne tato shai ak tezden!
> >
> > "Your mother and father were brothers!"
>
> You could (à la Spanish), use "fathers" as a gender neutral term for
> parents.
I'm afraid that _Taton shai ak tezden_ "Your fathers were brothers" would
imply that your parents have been engaged in some quite advanced and probably
illegal genetic engineering, and, in addition, are dead. _Manan shai ... _
won't work either, but the idea would probably be easier to accept for
Tairezan minds, as they tend to see the mother-child relation as more, well,
primary than the father-child one.

                                                     Andreas