Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

>That'd never occurred to me (maybe because of the
>degree to which I hated that book) but the Alphas
I didn't care for it either, but at least having read it, one can have a
personal opinion on it.

>*are* the socially most dominant.  They are the
>leaders.  That's why I applied the lable to them.  I
>suppose I *could* use thier native pronouns, but I
>don't think it would be a really good soultion since
>they wouldn't *feel* "pronoun-y" to an English speaker.
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".

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

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