>>>"I'm selling quite well, the slave said". Transitive or not, that is the question :).
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>>If the person he's talking to can see he's carrying a tray of confectionaries, he know (vt); if he's in IRONS, and the bidding's gone up to 20,000,000 kopeks, then he knows it's (vi)
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>Doesn't see anything, it's a message on a cell phone. Ha!

Well if the slave's on a mobile phone (as we say), then he's probably taking phone bids on himself. Oh I give up!
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>>>...I've never heard any words for a male zebra,
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>>STALLION of course, and the female's a mare
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>That's the same word that's used for horses. BTW, the Belgrade football (soccer, that is) fans' definition of a zebra: "A donkey who roots for Partizan" (the black & white stripes club).

Well a zebra IS a horse or, more exactly, a horse is an un-striped zebra.
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>>>...or female rhinoceros in my language :).
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>>COW (Bull and cow are used for m/f of many species, including whales)
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>And what's the word for the regular cow? Cow again. And when there's a cow and a zebra cow grazing alongside each other...

No, the f zebra would be a mare!
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>>>But then one could just append an appropriate suffix and anyone would understand what he meant.
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>>The suffix "ess" or "ix" ("!or" words - dominator/dominatrix - directrix- from the Latin) are used to feminise many male-orientated words.
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>I.e. the -ling is the only suffix available for the cub?
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>>What a word-poor language you have! How about gaggle of geese, mob/crowd/audience of people, school of whales (I think there's another one for dolphins)? There's also mob (of kangaroos/monkeys?), mockery (crows/ravens/magpies?)
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>Thin in some areas, I confess. But then, you have only one word for a number of people - when I say "petorica" - it's five male humans, "pet" it's five female humans, "petoro" - it's a mix of five humans of different genders. And that goes for any number between 2 and infinity (except for hundred, thousand, ten thousand etc).

GroupOfFiveMen, GroupOfFiveGirls, GroupOfFiveFolk only have 4 syllables - same as "petorica", if one could be arsed to be so specific.

As I said to you way back, Old English used to have forms like this, But somewhere along the line it must have been decided that they were fairly useless ("Hmmm, let me count now - 1-2-3-4-5 - I'll use the 'five' form of address" - and then when a sixth person pops up from behind the sofa you've got to slip into the "sixth sense"?)
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>>No, that's from the chest and suggests difficulty in breathing - not just an annoying noise.
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>We don't have such a word either; there's abundance of words for various speech impediments, though. "Vrstecati" - to pronounce your s's, sh's, ch's, soft-ch's and zh's too similarly;

Churchill had that one!

>..."frfljati" - mispronounce a lot, but fast; "mumlati" - to mumble (similar, isn't it?), "mrmljati" - to murmur (again).

We have stutter/stammer, lisp ( "th" for "s" or "w" for "r"), grunt, chunner, mumble, garble, murmur, whisper, shout, bellow, intone, rasp, et al.