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That's certainly true; there's still some pressure for men to be strong, but it's less than for women. It also seems that "higher" animals have less gender dimorphism than some others, like those insects where the males are really tiny. I'm not sure where that difference comes from. An old(ish) thr...

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jburke wrote: In the introduction to Noyahtukah morpohology I wrote an account of all this. You might find it useful in understanding how it all fits together; the intro is posted on my blog:

http://www.livejournal.com/~daszeria

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Um, Google?

http://www.geocities.com/rtoennis/

I miss friolenta, which is an adjective in spanish meaning to get cold easily. You would say " Ella es muy friolenta." She gets cold very easily. We have a word for this in my home dialect (Nottinghamshire). It's "nesh" (I believe it's from OE. nesc "soft"). I think it's a bit more derogatory than ...

Here are some useful word-lists for conlangers and natlangers, that I archived on my website some time ago:

http://www.annelyle.com/lang/resources.php

There are also a couple of documents listing all the topic headings from "Describing Morphosyntax", which were originally posted on C&C.

Cool diagrams! Kialrrna is active, fluid-S, and groups P, T and R together - though R is usually preceded by an appropriate preposition. Also, case is only marked on sentient participants (it's in the late stages of dying out and being replaced by fixed VSO word order). Kharratanö te' tehanä. hit.wi...

No comments yet - I'm just happily lapping it all up.

This cat is definitely not in agony

(Wouldn?t it be interesting to have a specific morphological category in a conlang to automatically switch such a perspective on a verb, so that you didn?t need to have separate lexemes for what are merely ?opposing? or complementary perspectives?) My conlang, Maalian, does something like this - th...