Re: relative weirdness (was Re: signal and noise in phonologies and scripts)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 11:43 |
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At 10:35 2001-12-10 +0000, James Campbell wrote:
>... which is why I found it so comforting to find Conlang in '96 when I got
>online: "Wow, so many conlangers!" You don't feel quite so weird when you're
>surrounded by equally-weird (or at least, weird for the same reason) people.
Until your kids tell you what a nut you are who wastes time with fairy-tale
languages...
That one really shot me down, and I'm still trying to recover. Not that
I'll stop conlanging, but I must find a way to convince them it is
worthwhile. :-(
/BP 8^)>
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