Re: Láadan and woman's speak

Robert Hailman wrote:
> Building on that, perhaps technical words borrowed heavily on natural
> terms, and the distinction was lost in the vocabulary and had to be made
> up by a new distinction, so the government of what ever culture this is,
> or maybe the scientific community, seeing as this society is
> technology-driven, decided that this could be best served by replacing
> an "archaic" gender system with one that suited there society better.
More likely, simply technology existed for thousands of years.  By that
point, whatever derivational methods were used to name their devices was
long forgotten, and they terms have become non-analyzable.  After
thousands of years, a new gender system could've easily evolved.

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