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===People and Families=== | ===People and Families=== | ||
As the Laudean species possesses a third sex they possess a third pronoun and a third category of family identifiers. Originally the third category was mapped to the | As the Laudean species possesses a third sex they possess a third pronoun and a third category of family identifiers. Originally the third category was mapped to the corresponding male words in Federation Standard due to a misunderstanding of the relationships and function of the three sexes, but it is now recognized that these words have no equivalent in Federation Standard and should be used in their original form. | ||
Part of this misunderstanding derived from the word 'lomale', which was thought to indicate a 'secondary male' status, however it was later | Part of this misunderstanding derived from the word 'lomale', which was thought to indicate a 'secondary male' status, however it was later realized to be a simple linguistic coincidence. 'Lomale' is the Laudean word for their third sex; the Laudean word for male 'Toshale'. | ||
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==Tenses== | ==Tenses== | ||
[[Laudean Tenses|How to conjugate verbs in | [[Laudean Tenses|How to conjugate verbs in different tenses of Laudean]] | ||