> 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
>
> Address changing to Abrigon@gci.net or Abrigon@gmail.com
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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! ;-)
>