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Subject: Re: Language (was Biological Sex Differences?)
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-From: demers@cs.ucsd.edu (David DeMers)
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-Lakoff is very entertaining.  "Women, Fire and Dangerous Things"
-perhaps is more to the original point of this thread ... :-)
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-Dave DeMers                      ddemers@UCSD   demers@cs.ucsd.edu

There is a particular category of nouns in Sanskrit, female nouns ending
in the  oo  sound.  There are only three nouns in this category.
They are vadhoo, svastroo and chamoo, meaning, respectively,
bride, mother-in-law, and army.  I have no idea what causes these particular
three to go together!  Recall also, Shaw's `flies, flees and fathers of the
Church'.

Rohit Parikh


