Re: Men vs Women on Conlang

Sally Caves wrote:
>
>----- 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?  :)
Damaged by real-world history, rather.

>  "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>
Hm, I guess I tend only to use the word "chieftain" of males.

But more sensibly, to me the word "ancient" very strongly suggests something
pre-mediaeval.


                                   Andreas

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