Reply #11: Exactamundo! Seems like an exercise in futility. Are you familiar with Nushu, the secret script?

[Dover]

Language is a fluid rather than a solid. And like water, communication/language/self expression can always find a way around obstacles. In the case of cultural obstacles such as women experienced in China (enforced illiteracy), a script was simply created to circumvent the mainstream language that was off limits to them.

Nüshu is a special written language used and understood only by women in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province. Discovered 20 years ago, this mysterious language has been handed down, mother to daughter, for generations. Women formed their own written symbols to represent the words in their local dialect. Hence men can usually understand nüshu if they hear it read aloud.

This language is now facing extinction.


http://womenshistory.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=womenshistory&cdn=education&tm=2034&gps=117_268_1008_550&f=10&tt=14&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.chinavoc.com/life/focus/wmbook.asp

http://www.ancientscripts.com/nushu.html