Re: Back from Berkeley, and still grinning.

What ever happened to WORFs theory? I think it was basically
that language and how it is used, and the words used, can
control us as people.

Classic being, that some languages the action words and such as
male, so there for potentially controlling of members of the
female gender. Let alone those who are cross/trans gender and
like.. Not just talking sexually, but emotionally as well..

I have had a few lesbian friends (I am a guy), and there is
often but not always, a member of the couple, that seems to be
more masculine in manners than the other.
Talking, hair, body, mannerisms, jobs skills, social skills,
what they get into.

Yes, some aspects of peoples lives, change over time, what was
once male is now female, and the reverse.. Would Worfs cover
this as well or do I got my head some place?

Mike
Alaska

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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Quijada" <jq_ithkuil@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: Back from Berkeley, and still grinning.


> Sally Caves wrote:
> >GREAT conference! ... Learned a lot about
> >language and its intricacies and differences, its various
cognitive
> >dimensions as well as its structures.  Conlanging is harder
than ever! :)
> >
> >Bravo!
> >
> >Sally
>
>===============================================================
==========
> And bravo to you, Sally!  Your talk was the perfect way of
starting off the
> conference -- an insightful, witty, provacative, at times
dramatic, and
> ultimately profound commentary on the conlanging art -- from
both historical
> and contemporary perspectives.  It really set the tone for the
conference --
> fun but meaningful.  By the end of your talk, I felt more
proud than ever to
> be a practitioner of the Increasingly-Less-Secret Vice.
>
> --John Quijada
>
> p.s.  a post on the ZBB by one of our fellow attendees
describes meeting you
> as "kick-patootie."  If that means what I think it does, I
heartily agree! ;-)

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