Re: a 12th century conlang
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 21, 1999, 14:09 |
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On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Diana Slattery wrote:
> spot on, irina. i am not trying to change the world by making a language. what
> is changing is my own cognitive processes, dealing with, then reflecting on,
> visual language. but my agenda ends at home.
Thinking some more about this I realize that making something,
whatever it is and for whatever reason, *always* changes the world:
if I bake a loaf of bread, there's a difference between the world
without it and the world with it. If you make something as complex as
a language, the difference is bigger, even if you didn't set out to
make that difference, and even if the difference doesn't affect much
beyond yourself.
The world without Brythenig or Teonaht or Valdyan would be a much
poorer place.
Irina
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