Women of Reddit, What are your thoughts about the Láadan Language?

5 comments

1. While I do believe that language affects how we think of sex and gender, and is very important as such, I don’t particularly like artificial languages as a concept.

2. >created with the mentality of the XX chromosome.

   I think a language created based on gracelessly generalizing people’s experience and mentality based on their chromosomes is poorly conceived and not representative of a majority of those people.

   Constructed languages offer a fascinating view into the creators’ minds and concepts, but i don’t consider something like this representative of an entire gender’s “mentality” at all. Gendered differences in language and language use are incredibly interesting and are valid research topics, but I’m not a fan of this particular method of approaching these topics.

3. I don’t think about it at all.

4. I have never heard of it but it sounds ridiculous. There is no mentality for a chromosome.

5. It sounds like a load of bullshit built on a false basis, to be honest.

   The XX chromosome pair doesn’t have a „mentality“