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Re: Male and female animals

From:Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>
Date:Thursday, October 31, 2002, 9:46
On Monday 28 October 2002 11:39 pm, Mau Rauszer wrote:
> Zesefde Herman Miller <hmiller@...> ta 2002.10.27. her 20:42:33 -5h: > > deer buck doe fawn > > On the other hand, it might be interesting to do without specific words > > entirely, even for humans! So "woman" would be "she-human" (urvi^va) and > > "buck" would be "he-deer" (mi^vo.^sa). >
Nu aves khara-ansha has the word |raoyitshou| made up of the elements |rao-| male, and |yitshou| child. Child is presumed to be female. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."