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Re: THEORY: Language tech & conlang survival

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 23:16
Hi!

Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> writes:
>... > Why should I care about survival? >...
Earth will not survive anyway. :-) Same here: I don't even usually care to learn my own languages, so of course I'm not aiming at survival of my conlangs. Only at personal aesthetics.
> My current attempt to create something I will really like is #41, >...
I just recently reached the ten. With four larger projects among those so far. #10 will probably be discarded (it's a conlang with less phonemes than Piraha and only CV syllables -- but I found out that I did not like that sound).
> ... 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.
Me, too. And my aesthetic goals are different for every conlang. There is much to explore, so I don't have one goal. Currently Qthen|gai seems to grow a lot and becomes a bit threatening (the language is so hard to remember and to generate that I cannot recite even a single sentence); morphosyntactically, phonetically and now also phonologically. The Lisp grammar has some 6000 lines of code now, the lexicon another 2800 and the web page source code has 5500. I love it. It's a hobby just like knitting, only that a pullover or a pair of socks is probably more useful than any of my conlangs. :-)))) **Henrik

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