Re: Men vs Women on Conlang

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>

> Camilla wrote:
> >Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >>If we are to add people who are not on the list, we just need to include
> >>the
> >>grandgrandmother of us all, Hildegarde of Bingen :)) . After all, it's
> >>quite
> >>striking that for a hobby/craft/art which is apparently so masculine the
> >>very
> >>first known conlanger in History is a woman!! :))))
> >
> >same as with programming, as a matter of fact, namely Lady Ada Lovelace.
> >
> >another supposedly "male" field, which was originated by a woman *smiles*
>
> If irony indeed is one of the guiding principles of the universe, someone
> will shortly be informing us that the first bloody-handed warlord known to
> history was female too.
>
>                                                         Andreas
She was Pamnerik of Teon, mistress of horses, slayer of kings, queen of the
Black and Caspian Seas; death in her hands, foreseeing in her eyes, mastery
in her sceptre, seduction and deceit on her lips, justice on her throne.  :)

That Hildegard invented a language known as "Lingua Ignota," 1011 nouns
written down with their Latin and Old High German translations, all of them
describing the things of her world--God, angels, the devil, man, woman, the
parts of the body, various diseases, the parts of a church, the
ecclesiastical professions, various trees and animals--decidedly indicates
to me, at least, that conlanging is NOT a specifically "male" field.  It has
only become so in the hands of assertive people who get published, or are
willing to self-publish, as Hildegard did, as we all do on the Internet.
Hildegard was exceptionally assertive, started her own Abbey.  Wrote
sermons, wrote hymns and had them sung by her nuns.


Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."

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