I don't know that I type for laughing after that, Andy. Do you mind if I print that off and substitute my name for Lucy's? It will be ever so motivating....
Xopher--Unfortunately, Elgin didmean the last book. She was writing them as a thought experiment to try to create a woman's language that would change our world here and now, hoping women would pick it up and use it as a real language. But between books 2 and 3 it became apparent that it wasn't working, so she focused on violence instead of language in book 3, structuring it to make it reflect the chaos society became when the Aliens went away.
I'm fascinated by idea of it, but not so much the execution.
And I don't know--babies learn all kinds of languages, but not in boxes.
Suzette Haden Elgin is wonderful! I helped republish her Native Tongue trilogy; the first two are wonderfully fun. The third, well, don't bother with the third unless you're curious to find out how a book can go terribly wrong.
To join the conversation late, Jacquelyn Carey's Kushiel's Dart trilogy is wonderful. It reminds me of Guy Gavriel Kay with a female center and more sex. The third book starts to feel repetitive in the structure, if not the characters, but it wasn't so bothersome as to make me stop reading.
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