Re: Why conlang
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 10, 2001, 4:31 |
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>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. :-)
Patrick Dunn wrote:
>Me, I do it because it's one thing I can have control over, and I can make
>the speaker of my languages as noble or base as I like. Right now, it's a
>refuge from the pain of current events..... I
>guess I make the languages of the places I wish I could be.
Yes.
>Imperative wrote:
I'm doing it for the artistic value. I think my
languages are simply representations of what I would consider
euphonious or aesthetically pleasing.>
Yes, that too. Until the language takes on a life of its own-- like Kash,
with its ugly and all too frequent [S] plural.
Also the intellectual challenge of creating something that _could_ be
real...
And the fun of taking what we know, or think we know, about language and
giving it a new twist.