Re: Láadan and woman's speak

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