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Re: Láadan

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 23:25
Ian Maxwell writes:
 > Peter Clark wrote:
 > I (and my wife, when she read Elgin's essay) found the underlying theory
 > deeply flawed and rather offensive to women in general
 >
 > Seconded! Granted, I'm not exactly in a position to know these things,
 > but the brief intro to the language that I found gave me the impression
 > of, "Wow, all this language does is grammaticalize mean-spiritedness, as
 > far as I can tell. Elgin must not think too much of women."
 >

SHE used to subscribe to CONLANG, and discussed her intentions with
Láadan in early 1995.  I have a gzipped tarball of list archives
1993-1996 (which Taliesin sent me, and from which I know all this).  I
can forward this to anyone who's interested, as I'm not aware of
archives from this period being online anywhere.  Elgin's first post
was on 1995-02-25 and discussion of Láadan follows soon after.

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Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>