Re: Láadan and woman's speak

Barry Garcia wrote:
>
> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Biodegradable and non-biodegradable, recyclable, non-recyclable, made
> >out of organic molecules, derived from plants or animals, artificial
> >versions of natural things (e.g., artificial flavors, artificial
> >vitamins, etc)
>
> You could even go so far as to having  polar, non polar, acidic, basic,
> neutral etc. You could have quite an intricate gender system with many
> many distinctions.
>
This makes me lean towards "scientific auxlang adapted to public use", a
natural language would doubtfully have such an intricate scientific
gender system. Not that it's impossible though, but if one said it was a
natlang in their conculture, they'd have a lot of 'splainin' to do,
unless they said it was a product of government-encouraged language
reforms.

This whole idea fascinates me, really. I'd like to see someone take it
to a completed language, but that would take a while, I'd imagine.

--
Robert