Re: Women conlangers of yrs past
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 23, 2000, 7:09 |
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At 11:08 am -0400 22/4/00, Jonathan Chang wrote:
>In a message dated 2000/04/22 06:27:28 AM, Ray Brown wrote:
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>>The fact that one
>>has to research harder to find women conlangers of the past is IMHO far
>>more to do with the econmomic position of women in society than anything
>>else.
>
> Ada, a high level computer programming language, is named after Ada,
>Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron,
[etc snipped]
I'm well aware of this. But, however brilliant a programmer she was, she
was _not_ a conlanger.
She is, of course, one of many outstanding examples of a woman who has/had
"an intellect, a rational, analytic, and logical understanding" - masculine
traits according to Yaguello.
Oh yes, there were outstanding women of the past; but you have to look
harder to find conlangers among them than you have to look among men.
Yaguello singularly failed to make the effort, it seems.
Ray.
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A mind which thinks at its own expense
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