Re: Why conlang

Quoting Roger Mills:
>> Heather Rice wrote:
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>>> Why do you conlang?  What do you most like about it?
>>> (Just curious.  :-)
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> 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.
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> Yes.
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>> 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.
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> Yes, that too.  Until the language takes on a life of its own-- like Kash,
> with its ugly and all too frequent [S] plural.
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> Also the intellectual challenge of creating something that _could_ be
> real...
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> And the fun of taking what we know, or think we know, about language and
> giving it a new twist.
I agree that this is an interesting question to be asking ourselves, and
agree with what a lot of the reasons already mentioned: the control
(especially to have a language to call your own--that your personality and
the language are inseparable), love of language, the intellectual challenge.
But I also think that my conlanging also involves a love of structures, and
a seemingly innate urge to create--two feeble attempts to link why I conlang
and why I compose music.  If I could only figure out that link...

--Doug

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