Re: Writing Systems and Biscriptal Children

nicole.eap@snet.net writes:
>conlangers on the list, do you find
>yourselves dissatisfied with these horrid male-dominated natlangs and
>left brain alphabets, and is this why you conlang - and, do you make
>your conlangs/concultures/conworlds female dominated?  It's funny, China
>was so male dominated and their women came up with Nu Shu, but Chinese
>uses ideographs...hmm.
Well, I made the Saalangal more female oriented (But not quite). The Daga
Bundogs are more patriarchal than the Saalangal but not as much as say,
China is. The Saalangal may be more goddess worship oriented, but both men
and women can be rulers as well as priests and priestesses. The Saalangal
are becoming an experiment to add in some of the cool ideas I learned this
semester in my world mythology class.
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My conlangs don't have gender mostly because it annoys me  :). I like it
in Spanish (though I occasionally forget to keep articles, nouns and
articles in agreement on gender! :)), but for my conlangs no, i dont feel
it's a necessary thing. Besides, the two with concultures are similar to
Tagalog, and there is no gender in that language as far as I can tell.  My
personal conlang has no gender because I want it simple for myself, and
again, it's not a necessary thing for my language. I'd rather save space
for more interesting features.

My Conscripts are: Syllabic and Alphabetic, because I find them simple to
use. Ideograms are complicated, and I just don't have the time to make
them up! :).