>I've never studied Láadan in any detail (the fact that the grammar and
>dictionary is copyrighted seems perverse, given SHE's idea that women
>might actually want to start using the language, but perhaps things
>looked different back before the Internet). But I'm not sure that the
The grammar book is copyrighted, as are things like the Lojban grammar book
available through AMAZON.COM. The language itself isn't copyrighted, and the
1000+ word lexicon is free on the internet.
>be more valuable to women than men. I'm not at all sure that this is
>true, but I still find the emphasis on attitudinal and evidential
>morphemes in Láadan _interesting_, whether or not they are
>particularly useful to women.
Ditto, although similar constructs exist in some natlangs.
Thanks. I'll see if I can get to those without IE through AOL going boom as
it so frequently does.
> > But how could she call /K/ an ugly sound!? Bah! Humbug!
> > :Peter
>
>It's a feature of Navajo, I think, so it's not as if she independently
>decided that it was ugly enough for use as a pejorative
>morphophonaestheme[1].
From what little I know of Navajo, I don't believe it has any relation to
specifying something as bad (or good) in Navajo. But how is this any worse
than having no /g/ or /k/ or /s/ in a language intended for broad use on
Earth?
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