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Re: Láadan and woman's speak

From:Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 5:19
On Last Sun of Tenderness, Barry wrote:


> This talk of interesting gender systems lead me to think of another. I was > thinking for a conlang made for technologically advanced people, a gender > system based on things like synthetic and non synthetic things. Perhaps > for things that use electricity, and things that dont, etc. > > Anyway, just a thought ;)
Well, IIRC in NGL genders are: people (-or), things (-ar), made things (-ir), abstract concepts (-ci) and places (-ka). The gender system has little to do with grammar excepts maybe with the posesives. (NGL has a two degree posesive which would be something like alienable/inalienable for people gender or relationship/ownership for things... or something like that.) -- Carlos Th