Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

--- Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
wrote:

> There's the rub: how to create such pronouns with
> pronouns so that the
> readers won't be continually thinking "there's that
> weird word again".
> Another one I've seen used is "herm".
>
Exactly.  I'm mean it would solve all *my* problems to
just say leywe gave the Book of the SkyChildren to
newul so leywe could give it to wenu, but you just
say, "Huh?"

> This of sourse raises the question: what about
> if/when the story is
> translated into another language such as French,
> German or Spanish?

Well maybe in Spanish I'd try some oddity like el, lo,
le, ella, la or something incomprehensible like that.
In German . . . well, I don't do German, but der, die,
das gets you started and since all thre can be applied
to humanbeans. . . I dunno!


Adam

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