>What I meant by "secret" was her ten year test to see if a.) Láadan would
>be
>accepted b.) something better than Láadan would come along or c.) people
>would go "Ehh..." and forget about it.

Hmm. Well, to me this isn't being secret. ::shrug::
Who other than she can know really why she made this choice?

>Actually, this was the part that interested my wife. Except after thinking
>about it for a while, decided that it wouldn't add much incentive to
>adopting
>it. Probably because it would rapidly solidify into social norms after a
>while. For instance, you would never really use the "despised" marker
>unless

You are, unfortunately, probably right about this.

>I would be interested in hearing more stuff on this, though. I know that
>there are natlangs that have emotion morphemes (and even more that have
>evidence morphemes); it would be interesting to hear more. Russian has

Ditto.

>diminutives, which are rather close to the emotion morphemes. Names, for
>instance, can be mutilated in any number of ways: Ivan -> Vanya (shows some
>degree of familiarity) -> Vanushka (much more intimate) or Vanka
>(derogatory,
>but also used in a coursely friendly way).

Cool. Hadn't though of it that way. I can muddle my way through when reading
Russian, but not much more.

>Sorry, I don't know what you were talking about with the
>property/form/syntax part. (Maybe you were confusing me with the original
>person--now forgotten--who started this thread?) This is something I
>haven't

Indeed. I was.

>studied much, probably because I haven't found it on the web.
>As for Klingon...didn't S.H.E.[1] have some choice words to say on the
>popularity of Klingon vs. Láadan? :) It does make one go "hmm..." when you
>consider that more women speak Klingon than Láadan (excluding, of course,
>its
>popularity among the Y-chromosome enhanced).

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