tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 09 17:09:24 1993
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Re: House languages
>Zame
>Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto, was showing us something about his
>attitudes when he created a special suffix to express the concept of
>"feminine" (sex not grammatical gender) in his idealistically-motivated
>language. In his view of the world, persons by default are male.
That depends on your viewpoint. You missed the fact that ALL nouns end in
-o, and only FEMALE LIVING CREATURES use the special -in- infix. In other
words, you have male-neuter, and female. If anyone should be offended,
it should be the men, who are grammatically (at least using your view)
grouped with tables, cars, flowers, and bacteria. Women are grouped only
with things which are alive and definately female.
>How PC is Klingon?
Who cares?
If it is NOT PC or even Politically UNcorrect, i would like to think
that Mr Okrand did it intentionally to reflect Klingon culture.
Qapla'