On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:14 AM, H. Felton
<fagricipni@gmail.com> wrote:
What is the best word for "humanoid"? ; it is the only concept that
I know of where the gendered words are gismu but the non-gendered
word is not. I've seen "jbire'a" and "remsmi" proposed. I don't
see the difference in meaning between "jibni" and "simsa". I do
have one minor issue with "remsmi": if I were to create a tanru for
from "remna" and "simsa" for what I want to express I would use
"simsa remna" because I want the meaning "x1 is a humanoid;
(adjective:) x1 is humanoid." in analogy to "remna"'s "x1 is a
human/human being/man (non-specific gender-free sense);
(adjective:) x1 is human". I don't want to use a lujvo derived
from the tanru "nanmu ja ninmu" or "ninmu ja nanmu" because "verba"
includes the possibility of neuter children (though it would take a
science-fictional context to have a neuter *person*; whereas a
lujvo derived from; eg, "nixli ja nanla", would not.
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