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

In a message dated 12.12.2001 01:31:51 PM, romilly@EGL.NET writes:

>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.
>
    Conlanging has made me re-examine a lotta my previous "resentments"
towards English, my "stepmother tongue," as well as helped me learn basic
ideas and concepts of/in other languages (NatLangs).
    To paraphrase Chuang-Tzu, one person's waste of time is another person's
"edutainment" (and, mayhaps, road to Enlightenment ;) Sometimes playful
idleness is more productive than work stress/frenzy.

    And play is a very important survival skill/strategy - all sentient
animal life plays to learn, learns to live, lives to play... hehe...

czHANgie, Current Incarnation of Sun WuKong, the Monkey King

*gigglagoogolbyte*/*spassogoogolocteto*

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