Re: "organic/non-organicintelligencegender"<wasRe:Ladanandwoman's speak>

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Robert Hailman wrote:
> > You say yourself that the development of something like this on its own
> > is pretty rare
>
> But rare is not the same as impossible!  There's no reason to make your
> language be average.  Developing on its own is far more plausible, I
> think, than being borrowed from an artificial language.  Besides, I have
> a hard time imagining the designers of an auxlang deliberately putting
> in gender.
>
I don't think it would be likely for them to put in the male/female
systems that we have in the European languages, but a system whereby
everything is modified due to the whether it is technology related or
not isn't like the male/female system, in that the gender that words
should be put in is very clear from the topic itself. It's easier to
decide if a computer, for example, uses or technology or not, then
whether it's male or female.

Of course, for them to intentionally put it in, there would have to be
some confusion about it in the already existing language, which could be
a problem. Maybe certain words about the natural world were reused with
a different meaning in the electronic world.

--
Robert