Musical-philosophical syntactic change-she:
5. A proposal: to construct gender-orientation for all nouns in English. There will be the 'usual' three genders: female, male, neutral. Endings will be constructed as -she, -he, and -it. Plurals are all the same: -they. We can then rewrite, for example: 5. A proposal-she: to construct gender-orientation-it for all nouns-they in English-it. There will be the 'usual' three genders-they: female-she, male-he, neutral-it. Endings-they will be constructed as -she, -he, and -it. Plurals-they are all the same: -they. We can then rewrite, for example-male: Here is a more compelling example-male: John-he went to the store-it to buy some bread-male and butter-she. John-he ran into Nancy-she who was shocked at his unkempt appearance-it! What on earth-she happened to you she asked. I lost my job- she, and have been on the dole-he, ever since, he said. And now, I find I have to learn the language-he all over again; you'd think once-she was enough! On the other hand-it, this certainly helps clarify the difficulties-they with English- it, since now the whole vast panoply-she of words-they are well-behaved and well-defined! Still, I long for the time-it when we were young and in love-he and on the run-he, nothing- she but faith-it holding us together and feeding us during the period-he of the rampage-it. I've got to be going now, he said, have to use the little-it of the money-she I have left to buy jam-he, jelly-it, apples-they, bananas-they, oranges-they, melons-they, and a great pumpkin-he for a nice and fancy desert-she! Well, goodbye, said Nancy-she, and here is a little tune-it for you to listen to in what- ever spare time-it you have left: http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/1012 (best) http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/breathless1.mp3 flute http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/breathless2.mp3 flute both: -- azure carter tamburi -- -- alan sondheim open-holed classical flute -- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
