Re: Láadan

Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:
> > I believe that Elgin's point was that there are concepts that are
> *difficult*
> > to explain in English that are vitally necessary *to women*--because
> those
> > concepts lack lexical items, women are at a severe disadvantage.
>
> If so, I think it's less because men haven't "allowed" such words to
> exist as that women's roles in our culture has changed more, thus, they
> have gone further from the original culture that our language developed
> in than men, and hence, find more gaps.
    This, I think, is pretty insightful and a much better explanation for
any "gaps" (no one has yet to mention a significant gap yet, but my quest
continues).
    :Peter