Láadan/Lessons/12

Introduction
Inter-personal relationships can be described in much more detail, and with many fewer words, in Láadan.

Family relationships
You can use the suffix "-id" to explicitly specify maleness.

Remember that Possession markers can also be used.

Pronouns
The standard pronouns can also be altered to indicate feeling toward them. Recall the basic pronouns:

And rules for adding feeling:


 * Beloved - change the "e" vowel with "a". la, lazh, lan, ba, bazh, ban, na, nazh, nan
 * Honored - change the "e" vowel with "i". li, lizh, lin, bi, bizh, bin, ni, nizh, nin
 * Despised - add "lhe-" to the beginning. lhele, lhelezh, lhelen, lhebe, lhebezh, lheben, lhene, lhenezh, lhenen