A Third Dictionary & Grammar of L‡adan

A Third Dictionary & Grammar of L‡adanThis book includes material from 1st Dictionary and Grammar (1988) and merges it with new vocabulary created for the Ladan website. Elgin died in 2015, but interest persists in the language she created in 1982, embodied in her SF "Native Tongue" series. Ladan is a feminist constructed language created by Elgin to test the Sapir Whorf hypothesis that the language one speaks influences the way one thinks, i. e., can a language expressing the views of

This book includes material from 1st Dictionary and Grammar (1988) and merges it with new vocabulary created for the L‡adan website. Elgin died in 2015, but interest persists in the language she created in 1982, embodied in her SF "Native Tongue" series. L‡adan is a feminist constructed language created by Elgin to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that the language one speaks influences the way one thinks, i.e., can a language expressing the views of women shape a culture? L‡adan includes morphemes that require speakers to own their own perceptionsÑwords that indicate, for instance, whether a statement comes from personal observation, a trusted source, or an unreliable third party. Nowadays Elgin might argue that accusations of "fake news" would be impossible in L‡adan. This language also encodes speakersÕ intentions into their sentences, eliminating another form of micro-aggression, the rude comment that is passed off as Òjust a joke.Ó All proceeds will go to the Science Fiction Poetry Association.