Re: Láadan and woman's speak

FFlores wrote:
> While these are
> all derivatives, it's not absurd to think of them becoming
> compulsory.
But that still wouldn't be gender.  To be called gender, it must
influence other words in the sentence, for instance, affecting the
choice of adjectival forms.  Otherwise, it's merely a classification
system.

> if you compound all animal names
> with, say, -/&~/ < "animal" and names of common things
> with -/TI~/ < "thing", you can end up with two gender
> suffixes...
Two classification suffixes.  If those then become affixed to
adjectives, or verbs, or whatever, then it's gender.

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