Re: Men vs Women on Conlang

In a message dated 12/10/2002 7:37:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes:


> If we are to add people who are not on the list, we just need to include the
> grandgrandmother of us all, Hildegarde of Bingen :)) . After all, it's
> quite
> striking that for a hobby/craft/art which is apparently so masculine the
> very
> first known conlanger in History is a woman!! :))))
>
>
Another woman of note would be the late linguist Victoria Fromkin, who
devised the Pakuni languge for the US Children's TV show "Land of the Lost"
in the 1970s.

Here's a link for those interested:

http://www.kzinti.freeserve.co.uk/lotl.htm#prof

Doug