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Assuming the information on WP is at least somewhat accurate (yeah, I know...) I'm curious about how these systems work/worked in practice. Specifically, what happens if someone is born to a mother and father who are in a forbidden relationship? Presumably the mother and father would be ostracized due to engaging in an incestuous/taboo relationship. But what about the child? Would they have some kind of permanent outcast/bastard status by virtue of their birth, or could they retroactively be assigned to a group? Are there any recorded cases of how traditional Aboriginal societies deal with or dealt with this problem? Or is it so

This is just a "for fun" question but I was wondering if anyone knows of any unexplained mysteries or weird stuff happening in Antarctica, either from their own experience or by way of Antarctic urban legend.

I'm not talking about armchair conspiracy theory stuff about secret Nazi bases or people over analysing google earth pics. That crap is all too easy to find on the internet. I'm talking about unexplained things that actually happened in Antarctica and were experienced by people who live and work there. I know about Rodney Marks, the guy who died of methanol poisoning in 2000 at the Pole but I can't find any other examples. Even weird but completely explained phenomena like the Blood Fa

I'm English and would use either "you" or "you lot". I know Aussies who say "you guys". Which would Kiwis use? How common is "yous"? I'm talking about informal usage here, not proper English.

I'm working on a creole conlang which has Standard Mandarin as a superstrate and Korean and Italian as substrates. My idea is that imperfect acquisition of Mandarin tones would result in the creole becoming a "pitch accent" style language, with contrastive tone only appearing on one syllable per word. I'm also assuming there would be a lot more polysyllabic words than in Mandarin. Does this development sound plausible?

From a brief survey of Mandarin based creoles with non-tonal substrates I can't find any examples of pitch accent type systems developing. There's creoles like Tangwang which mostly retains the tones of Mandarin and there's creoles like Wutun which has lost the tones entirely

I'm doing some research for a creative project and would like some information on real world examples of how small societies cope with gender imbalance, specifically a high men:women ratio. For example, a group of settlers that are mostly men with a few women.

Are polyandrous type arrangements likely to arise? Or would the excess men be exiled from the group? After the first generation would the society's norms return to normal or might there be longer lasting effects? I'm mainly asking about pre-modern societies but I would imagine things like frontier towns in the New World might also be applicable.