Re: Men vs Women on Conlang
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 16, 2002, 22:11 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
> >
> >She was Pamnerik of Teon, mistress of horses, slayer of kings, queen of
the
> >Black and Caspian Seas; death in her hands, foreseeing in her eyes,
mastery
> >in her sceptre, seduction and deceit on her lips, justice on her throne.
> >:)
>
> Thanks for the info! Anyway, is it just me, or did she, appart from a
> Captain Caveman attitude to politics, have a suspiciously male-sounding
> name? "Pamnerik" sounds more like the name of a midevil Germanic chieftain
> than of an ancient Queen.
What would one call that? Phonetically ethnocentric? :) "Pamnerik" is a
character from a long lost novel I wrote when I was about fourteen (total
crap), about one of the Feleonim, the winged cats that I used to dwell on.
She was a warrior feline. Appropriated by humans, her name means "Red
River," and can refer to the carnage she leaves behind or her own fatal
menstruation. She is different, however, from the Goddess of War and
Strategy. She has become euhemerized; and yes, she is a medieval, actually
ancient, Chieftain. Queens can be chieftains. <G>
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."
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