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Most "third sexes" in real-world cultures are people who live in the gender role opposite from their biological sex. The Muxe, for example, are either masculine or feminine; the Hijras are biologically male people who live as women. As I understand it, the ewemi don't live in one gender role or the ...

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I also found the ewemi fascinating. How did you think up this idea?

Just one thing: If all the smart people were made ewemi who were less likely to reproduce, wouldn't the Axunemi population get less and less intelligent over time, like in the movie Idiocracy?

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You know something, 'riku? You're right! [slaps forehead] I can't believe I forgot such an important thing! Kuh-5's sigquote is almost as important as the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address! How could I have forgotten to add it here? Why don't we pull up everything I've written t...

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boy #12 wrote:Commandment XI: I, the LORD your God, have a penis and I hate the usage "over-exaggerate."

some of you never paid attention in Sunday school...

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You probably got fired because you were acting like an effeminate weirdo and that doesn't jive with acceptable standards of male behavior. Did we just go back to 1950, or did we just go back to 1950? I'm retiring my old sigquote here. Soap: That's interesting, I've never really thought about the ma...

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Southtown wrote:How come we've gone from Legion's girl-troubles to.. sperm donors?

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Babajaga, do you mean me? You thought I was 12?

If everyone laughs at me on IRC, then why me? Why not someone else, like Eddy? Are you sure it's everyone?

I really hope that was directed at Whimemsz and not me.

Besides, I'm 23 now.

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Hey, don't feel bad, I haven't been quoted all that much either.

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I'm retiring my old sigquote here:

bricka wrote:The time will surely come when it will be impossible to say something without every word having some sort of sexual connotation.

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Do they have to be funny?

I just liked them, that's all.

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I've got one: How do you say "boingy" in Itlani? :mrgreen: Oh, and another: 3. Imralu, not every post has to be about how you're gay. Oh no, if only someone had told me this earlier, the whole thing could've been avoided. But I've explained my point of view many times before in your other 'I'm gay' ...

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Here's a quote about me:

Dewrad wrote:There was doubt about Downtimer's gender?

Taken out of context, it sounds funny.

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I have another quote:

gsandi wrote: -burger is hardly an inflectional ending.

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Goneriku, is that true about Mohammed?

I'll have to submit my sigquote:

gsandi wrote:
Curlyjimsam wrote:All cultures have sex. Not all cultures have furniture.
Not so. If anything, furniture may be more universal.

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It's big, but it needs preserving. People like you are why we have these tales of Napoleon's penis floating around in a jar. That's a good quote for this thread! :mrgreen: Edited to add: Is copypasta what you restore from when your pasta has collided with antipasta and been annihilated? [needs hyst...

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My conlang is ergative-dechticaetiative. (That is, my primary conlang; I'm experimenting a bit with other forms of ergativity.) Ergative-dative just didn't make sense. Intransitive: Katole kato-lasa. The student learned. Monotransitive: Katonu-ka katole kato-lasa. The teacher taught the student. ("T...

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I don't buy the idea that when babies are needed, women become 'baby-making machines'. It assumes that men are 100% in control of everything. In reality, while men have advantages, women are also a factor. In societies where women have lots to offer, their situation is usually better, and babies ar...

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Can I point out to everyone that the Eskimo system that we use, with father/uncle contrasts, cross-cousin/parallel-cousin mergers, lack of distinction between agnatic and uterine uncles and aunts and so forth, is only found in about 10% of human societies, and generally only high-tech or very-low-r...

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Another question: Isn't Hebrew usually written without vowels? How do you know if KTVT is kotevet, kotvot, katavti, katavta, katavt, or any of those other forms? It could be the present tense or the past tense. KTV would be even worse, because it could also be the future tense or even a noun. Are th...

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If there are masculine and feminine forms of the 2nd-person conjugation, what do you do if you don't know the gender of the person you're talking to (e.g. if you're writing a book and need to address the reader)? Do you assume the masculine, or guess based on gender roles, or something else entirely...

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I know absolutely no Hebrew, other than shalom et al. The stuff posted here about triconsonantal root systems is interesting; I might do something like that for my conlang. What I'm wondering is, how many roots are there? If you can get stuff as diverse as "marriage contract," "word processor," "pen...

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