Re: Laadan was Re: Posession

>Speaking for myself here, one thing that disappointed me about Láadan was
>that it seems more like an IAL (well, I guess that's what S.H.E. secretly
Hmm, that was one of the most publicly stated secrets I've encountered.

>intended to test) than anything profoundly insightful on the linguistic
>needs
>of women. Apart from the base gender being feminine, there really wasn't
Nor did I, but I'm not a woman. The most interesting parts for me were the
emotion and evidence morphemes.

>couple of months ago about this; try the archives for the full story.
Hard for me to get to from here. Sorry. Will take your word for it.

>distasteful and demeaning to women. If there were a great enough need for a
Or reflective of the faddish face of feminism of the 70s wherein it was
asserted that all the problems of the world and its subcultures originate
with men.

>call the Academie Français fallacy: that it is even possible for one group
>to
>decide what shall and shall not be permitted to enter the language.
>Baloney.
Ah, but mental myopia is rife in humanity, regardless of education.

>But how could she call /K/ an ugly sound!? Bah! Humbug!
Her selected set of phonemes seemed restrictive to me, too, but then, it
wasn't my conlang. I asked her once why she chose the ones she did, but got
the canned reply: a reduced set of morphemes reduces the probablity of aural
mistakes. True perhaps, but not an answer to my question.

Regardless, Laadan does offer a set of differing posessives, and to reject
examinig a property/form/syntax because I generally don't like the language
in which it occurs would say more about me than about the language and/or
its author. I personally dislike Klingon, both for form and the author's
stranglehold on it, yet tlhIngon Hol viSov.

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