bill@milford.UUCP (bill) (05/02/85)
Yeah, I forgot to mention that that author of _Native_Tongue_ was
Suzette Haden Elgin.
for(i=0; i<1000; i++)
puts("The author of _Native_Tongue_ is Suzette Haden Elgin");
I feel that it is different from Vance's _Languages_of_Pao_ or
Watson's _Embeddings_ in that not only is the environment changed by
the change in language but the psyche of the users. That's why I
mentioned Chomsky et al, who I thought maintained that language
structures mirror structures in the human psyche (brain?). So a
woman's language would imply a different built-in structures(?).
It reminded me rather more of James Tiptree's "The Women That Men
Don't See" in which women just trade one alien environment for another.
A whole raft of tangents can be set off of from this, which might
belong in other groups like net.nlang or net.women.