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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 ...
- Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:54 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
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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...
- Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:14 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
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- Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:06 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
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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...
- Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:04 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
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- Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:26 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
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- Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:05 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
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- Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:01 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
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- Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:01 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
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- Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:10 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
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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' ...
- Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:28 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
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- Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:17 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
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- Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:04 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
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- Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:47 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
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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...
- Sat Nov 11, 2006 3:17 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
- Replies: 179
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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...
- Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:49 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
- Replies: 172
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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...
- Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:30 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
- Replies: 172
- Views: 119858
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...
- Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:56 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Triconsonantal Root Systems
- Replies: 201
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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...
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:26 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Triconsonantal Root Systems
- Replies: 201
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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...
- Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:57 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Triconsonantal Root Systems
- Replies: 201
- Views: 157158
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...