This is an Essay: The Language and Legacy of Láadan (Evidently)
The Language and Legacy of Láadan (Evidently)
In general, what is most attractive about Láadan is not the grammar or the phonetic accessibility, but the vocabulary.
Equality does not mean that the oppressed and the oppressors take turns, but that they reach a fair and even compromise.
Elgin made the word oódóo (bridge), for example, because she felt that “its tune makes the shape of a humpback bridge,” and she created rul (cat) based on the purr of a cat (Elgin, “Notes on Adding to Vocabulary”).