Re: CHAT: Brainstorming! Relative clauses

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, taliesin the storyteller wrote:

> * Padraic Brown (pbrown@polaris.umuc.edu) [991007 17:33]:
> > On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Paul Bennett wrote:
> >
> > > Well, it turned out to be harder than I thought.  I ended up sending it
> > > all home, puzzling over it without doing much for a couple of hours and
> > > sending the minor adjustments I'd made back to myself at work, where I
> > > finished it off fairly quickly this morning.  Maybe I conlang better at
> > > work?
> >
> > It's probably the monetary motivation.  Boy, I'd sure like to have a job
> > where I get paid for conlanging! ;D
>
> Humm you DO know that the best way to kill creativity is to be paid to
> be creative?
>
Well, it _was_ a joke after all; (I have conlanged on the job, too!)

Actually I'm not so sure about your question. I'm not saying one must be
paid to be creative; but musicians, artists, authors, actors,
restorationists and a whole host of creative legions are paid to be
creative.  Some are paid quite well.

Padraic.

>
> tal.
> --
> "Better living through conlanging"
>