Re: Láadan and woman's speak

Robert Hailman wrote:
> Scientific and tech terms definitely, but I wouldn't consider it likely
> that the whole gender system would be reformed in this time.
Sure it would.  After millennia have passed, any pre-existing
gender-system could be lost, and a new gender-system could've evolved.
A gender system involving things like "electric" I could see developing
if electricity were used for thousands of years.

> Over a long time frame, I'd imagine it would be
> more likely for no changes to occur to a gender system than a change
> this radical.
Not necessarily a change, but a replacement.  English has lost
grammatical genders in only about a millennium, I don't know how long it
would take genders to evolve, but within a time-frame of several
millennia, I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible for genders to be
lost and recreated a couple of times.

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