Re: Láadan

On Monday 02 December 2002 5:31 pm, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nik Taylor [mailto:yonjuuni@EARTHLINK.COM]
> > Sent: Thursday, 2002 November 28 1:33
> > To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [CONLANG] Láadan
> >
> > Peter Clark wrote:
> > > Outside of that, do any women feel a particular lack in English
> > > vocabulary on a given subject?
> >
> > Well, I'm not a woman, but I feel lots of lacks in English vocabulary.
> >
> > :-)  Tho I suppose it would be interesting to see if women
> >
> > perceive more lacks than men.  Some examples:
>
> Ditto.  And I spend much time flailing around in English trying to find the
> word that accurately conveys the meaning I want.
Odd...the English vocabulary is somewhat too big for me ;-).  I think we
should eliminate all the Romance vocabulary, that way I'd spend less time
sifting through it to find the word I want...