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Re: lexicon

From:michael poxon <m.poxon@...>
Date:Friday, May 30, 2003, 23:49
I'm not sure anyone knows what language was created for (does there have to
be a reason?) - but in any case that kind of  argument tends to imply a
wilful act of creation. I think you'll find that 'arts' came before
everything, and included language. All these synonyms are wonderful, 'cause
they aren't strictly synonyms - there's a cultural element present, and also
various shades of meanings and references, historical, semantic and so on.
Mike
> > > > i'm not a poet and i'm not big on reading poetry either. Real language
is
> > created first for communication, and secondly for arts, and that's the
way
> > i'm creating Minyeva. Minyeva kind of has some auxlang qualities, one of > > them being the lack of synonyms/homophones. It's a lablang, vs. being an > > artlang.
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