You might be interested in knowing a little more about the words for "bridge" and "butterfly." One of the things that women do in their language behavior, in all of the languages I know, is a whole lot of body language work. I wanted that work to be less in Láadan, and the language is therefore constructed to lexicalize body language. (That is, to give it a pronounced form, instead of leaving it all to be done by tone of voice and gesture and facial expression and so on.) That's why you have the set of words that tell whether the sentence coming up is a statement or question or something else; and that's why you have the endings that tell whether the sentence is meant as a joke or a lesson or a narrative or something else--to reduce the communications labor for the women speaking.
The word for bridge, when its tone markers are in the right place, has a sound pattern like this: 
. The word for butterfly is like this: 
. Since intonation (the melody that carries the spoken words) is part of body language, this is another way of lexicalizing it. For both of these words, the voice makes the shape of the thing named, in the ear's space and the ear's time. Shapes "in the air," you perceive, but for the ear rather than for the eye.