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From: bill@milford.UUCP (bill)
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Subject: Native Tongue Redux
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 09:17:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 09:17:28 1985
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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.