<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Unless you are planning on having sex with an alien, why would you care if it were male or female or neither? Some trees are considered male and others of its species female, but unless you are seeking fertile fruit, most people never bother to figure out whether a tree is a he or a she.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Klingon doesn’t have sexually classified gender like English does. Most languages don’t. Gender can have all kinds of categorization systems, like marking the difference between old words vs. newer words borrowed from some other language. Klingon gender has to do with marking the difference between beings capable of using language, body parts, and everything else. Biological sex role has nothing to do with it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, in Klingon, you’d be less interested in noting that it wasn’t male or female (since there is no “he” or “she” or “it” to use as the pronoun when discussing the alien), but instead, you’d be trying to figure out whether it used language.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 27, 2019, at 7:12 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" class="">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">I don't suppose, someone can come up with a descent way to say "this alien is of neutral gender", right ?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Because all I can think of, is crap like "this alien isn't male, and isn't female".</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Anyways, thought I should ask, in case someone could think of something better.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Though I seriously doubt it..</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">But I *do* hope someone proves me wrong..</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Which is something I seriously doubt too..</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I'll just shut up now.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">~ m. qunen'oS </div><div dir="auto" class="">klingon has a complete vocabulary</div></div>
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