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Re: Láadan and woman's speak

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, May 25, 2000, 4:53
Robert Hailman wrote:
> This is definitely possible, but a society that got rid of it's gender > system wouldn't likely adopt a new one.
Why not? We know from records that gender can be lost. Language has existed for God knows how long, if gender could only be lost, and not gained, then where there'd be no genders in any language on Earth!
> I say simultaniously because I'd imagine the electrical > and synthetic distinctions would come in as the male/female > disctinctions were lost.
I forget the earlier posts in this thread, but why should there have been an earlier gender system? Why not just postulate gender evolving from a non-gendered language? -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Glassín wafilái pigasyúv táv pifyániivav nadusakyáavav sussyáiyatantu wawailáv ku suslawayástantu ku usfunufilpyasváditanva wafpatilikániv wafluwáiv suttakíi wakinakatáli tiDikáufli!" - nLáf mÁldu nÍmasun ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor