Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: Sounds like...
| From: | Mathias M. Lassailly <lassailly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 19, 1998, 20:44 |
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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
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