Re: relative weirdness (was Re: signal and noise in phonologies and scripts)

On 12 Dec, Roger Mills wrote:

> BP Jonsson wrote:
>
>
> >At 10:35 2001-12-10 ?, 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...
    They also tell me that my taste in pop-music stinks! But then again,
we told that to _our_  parents, no?  ;-)

> >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. :-(
>
> Do they read comics? Story books? Play video games?  These too can be
> considered wastes of time with fantastic situations....Whatever benefits
> such activities may incidentally provide-- improved reading ability,
> hand-eye coordination, strategizing-- are comparable, mutatis mutandis, to
> "wasting" one's time pondering language questions.  Ah well, they are
> probably young, and will someday learn that not everything we do must have
a
> "practical" value.
And _then_ they'll listen to their elders, right?  ;-)

Dan Sulani
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