Re: THEORY: Language tech & conlang survival

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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