Re: Hressa-Hlab (was: Re: Martian conlangs?)

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:57:28 -0500, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:

>You bet!  It was the inspiration for my word "imral," way back when, which
>means rational being, "soul," to be distinguished from brutes or
>non-speaking sentients.  BTW, I've noted with some irritation that the word
>for "rational alien" in lots of science fiction discourse is "sentient";
>shouldn't it be "sapient"?
H. Beam Piper actually did use "sapient" in his Fuzzy novels, which to a
great extent are about what it is to be sapient in the first place, and
also include a handful of actual Fuzzy words and phrases (but not enough to
really get a good taste of the language).