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Rex May - Baloo wrote: > > on 2/28/02 4:58 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > > > Just noticed that there are terms like <pezo>, person-male, which is > > head-modifier. > > > > Don't like it. Hate it. Despise it. > > More on this. You'll note that I've gone with complete neuter words for > everything, including kinship terms. Somehow, xipam and zopam, like xipe, > zope, just rub me the wrong way. [...] Wait'll you finish your Mandarin course. They'll whip you into line. So you like "parent male", but not, presumably, "house big"? Do you, by any chance, feel that "male" is a noun, rather than an adjective? -- Mike Wright http://www.CoastalFog.net _______________________________________________________ "When they wired us humans up, they really should have labeled the wires--don't you think?" -- Ed