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Re: Láadan and woman's speak

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, May 25, 2000, 23:57
Tom Wier wrote:
> Could he come up with good syntactic reasons for doing that? I can't > imagine that he could legitimize that based on morphology.
It seems to me that things like "ships" being "she" are merely irregular classifications, the kind that exists abundantly in most of the other European languages (and, of course, many other families as well) -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Glassín wafilái pigasyúv táv pifyániivav nadusakyáavav sussyáiyatantu wawailáv ku suslawayástantu ku usfunufilpyasváditanva wafpatilikániv wafluwáiv suttakíi wakinakatáli tiDikáufli!" - nLáf mÁldu nÍmasun ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor