Re: Why conlang
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 10, 2001, 5:46 |
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In a message dated 09.10.2001 08:12:48 PM, tb0pwd1@CORN.CSO.NIU.EDU writes:
>On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Heather Rice wrote:
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>> Why do you conlang? What do you most like about it?
>> (Just curious. :-)
<< One thing foreigners, computers, & poets
have in common is that they make
unexpected linguistic associations. >>
* Jasia Reichardt
- creative cyberneticist *
"It would be ironic if the answer to Babel
were pidgin and not Pentecost."
- George Steiner, _After Babel:
Aspects of Language & Translation_
"verbing weirds language"
~ Calvin & Hobbes
One art/there is/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
-Douglas Hofstadter
also it is a matter of principle *gigglabyte*
I have the principle of bein' a lingua-mangler ... language
mutation/mutilation is what Trickster-types do... if they are into doin'
mischief to languages
or as Roger Mills (ROMILLY) says:
> ... the fun of taking what we know, or think we know, about language and
giving it a new twist.
czHANg :P twistin' his own worldview for the better (7 months & 9 days
Clean&Sober!)
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