Re: Láadan and woman's speak

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?

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