Re: Láadan
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 23:25 |
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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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