Re: THEORY: Language tech & conlang survival

Ray Brown wrote:

> But while auxlangers do of course want their languages not merely to
> survive but to catch on, I do not think that all conlangers, particularly
> artlangers, necessarily have such desires. ...
> But it will be interesting to see the replies.
Why should I care about survival? My current attempt to create something I
will really like is #41, and it doesn't look like the end. Some of the
previous projects or ideas are totally abandoned, the others (like e.g.
Ajami #1 or Lesano #4 or Kuman Tyli #20) from time to time demonstrate
effort to resurrect. OTOH, if I am able to meet my aesthetic aims, I'll try
to keep the project alive for much longer time at least for my own pleasure,
and to see it living, growing, tuning to larger expressivity etc. Yes, I'm
definitely an artlanger.

-- Yitzik

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