Saturday, April 12, 2008

Native Tongue

Related Texts:
The Guild Of Xenolinguists - Sheila Finch
DragonSong - Anne McCaffrey
The Judas Rose - Suzette Haden Elgin

I liked this book a lot. That being said, I spent a lot of time being extremely angry at the men in the story. I don't think that there was a decent guy in the entire story, unless they were to old to be anything but grandfatherly. I did think that the idea that the misunderstandings between men and women were related to the inadequacies of language to describe the concepts that women think about.

Do you think that the premise is plausible? Would it be possible for the vote, the right to own property, etc. to be taken away after it has been given and held for over a half a century? Woud the people being disenfranchised really let it happen?

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