Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: Sounds like...

At 20:44 19/11/98 -0000, you wrote:
>Joshuah wrote :
>
>> Hey, cool... I used to think in terms of number-genders and=
 letter-genders
>> when I was a little kid, too; I haven't a clue why, but 2, 4, 5,  and 6
>> seemed definitely male to me, 3, 7, 8, and 9 definitely female; 0 and 1
>> were neutral, though sometimes I thought of 1 as male; the letters had=
 their
>> genders as well and all the numbers up past 20 had colors, some of
>> the letters also.
>Same to me (before that horrible math-teacher made me hate maths I liked so
much before) except that 2 and 8 were 'hermaphrodite'. As I was 12 my first
conlang's 'base' (a French word I can't guess how to translate in English)
was 2-and-8 and I believe now it was because it could express both my then
growing attraction to women and my respect for them (I'm not kidding for
once :-).
>Mathias
>
        All this conversation seems very odd for me. I never ever gave any
colour or gender to numbers or letters. Even when I created conlangs with
genders, the gender of letters was totally random (like the fact that in
French, letters are masculine: "un A, le B" whereas they are feminine in
Spanish: "una A, la B").

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