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tommjames (Näytä profiilli) 13. toukokuuta 2013 8.55.15
Chainy:What do you think about the suggestion that Sergio Pokrovskij makes in ReVo: gepatrANo, geavANoI always found that form long-winded and slightly ridiculous, myself. As far as I can see it's not in use very much either, although that could be because a singular gender-neutral form is actually very rarely necessary.
Scalex (Näytä profiilli) 13. toukokuuta 2013 20.03.10
What do you think about the suggestion that Sergio Pokrovskij makes in ReVo: gepatrANo, geavANo etc...?I think there's a lot to be said for simplicity - can be better to avoid making larger, meaning-packed constructs, when simpler ones will do. Using non-standard "geavo" has less morphemes in it, and so the meaning is more immediately apparent than the technically grammatically more okay, but actually super-rare "geavano", with its 3 morphemes.