Re: Men vs Women on Conlang
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 23:01 |
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:38:44PM -0000, michael poxon wrote:
> One possibility for the sexual imbalance is that since many conlangs are
> closely allied with fantasy or SF, and this is read overwhelmingly by
> males (never mind why - that's another question!) then it's us chaps who
> have the greater incentive. I don't think it's anything to do with
> linguistics, other than fantasy linguistics as a subset of fantasy
> writing.
But OTOH, I've only marginal interest in fantasy literature. I'm a lot
more interested in *creating* stuff than reading it. But of course, I
can't speak for anyone else here. :-)
T
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