Re: meeting of minds

On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Diana Slattery wrote:

> i think role-playing and games are closely related, myself.  my
> interest in such has been simultaneously generated with conlanging,
> believe it or not.  games in general, principles of games, nature of
> games, rulesets in general--how a few simple rules and a limited
> number of elements can generate many many unique games.  this seems
> like language to me.
Have you heard about the game of Nomic?  It is a game where the purpose
(one purpose, anyhow) is to change the Rules - it is hard to tell whether
it is a game, roleplaying or lawmaking, that can depend on the style of
the particular game.  (<http://web.utk.edu/~chatham/nomicfaq.html>)

Alas, I don't seem to have time for all the fun things anymore, I wonder
when I will get time to actually construct a language... another guy on
this list went the other way and gave up Nomic for conlanging etc. =20
instead.

Greetings,
=D8rjan (temporarily taking the time to read conlang.)

--=20
'What Einstein called "the happiest thought of my life" was his
realization that gravity and acceleration are both made of orange
Jello.'  - from a non-crackpot sci.physics.relativity posting