Re: News
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 29, 2003, 0:38 |
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"Mark J. Reed" wrote:
> Heh. But even without the institution of marriage, there
> must be some way to express paternity, yes? I didn't
> just say "Someone is pregnant"; by identifying that
> someone as my wife, I implied that I was the one who
> got her that way. :)
Uatakassi has no concept of marriage. There's also no social or legal
concept of fatherhood. There is a fairly technical term "nlannani"
(literally "co-mother"), but no verb for "to father". The closest
equivalent in Uatakassi would be something like "My woman is pregnant",
which would sound very odd to the Kassii. :-) I suspect they'd
probably interpret "my woman" as meaning "my female slave", so that's
probably right out. Perhaps just "My (female) companion is pregnant".
But, there's no connotation of fatherhood. I suppose one could specify
it by saying "My (female) companion is pregnant by me" or "... with our
child".
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