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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Genders
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On 9/17/05, Naomi K <alien.juxtaposition@gmail.com> wrote:
> coi
> 
>   Is there any easy way to distinguish genders in lojban; e.g. how would you
> say 'Mr and Mrs Smith'? I was thinking of incorporating 'nin' and 'nan' into
> the names  e.g. la smitnin .e la smitnan, but that would sort of distort the
> name somewhat.

Also, "Mr and Mrs" usually means "husband and wife", not just man
and woman. It isn't normally be used for "son and mother", "father 
and daughter", "brother and sister" or even two unrelated Smiths of 
different sex. You could say {lai smit poi spesi'u} for "The Smiths
that are married to each other" (that doesn't specify that they are
of different sex though).

mu'o mi'e xorxes