Dan Sulani wrote:
BP Jonsson/Roger Mills wrote (snipping a lot)
>> >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. :-(
>>
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? ;-)
Wasn't it Mark Twain who said (I paraphrase): "When I was 20, I thought my
father was totally ignorant. When I was 40, I was surprised to see how much
he had learned over the years."