Re: a 12th century conlang
| From: | Laurie Gerholz <milo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 25, 1999, 0:02 |
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Sally Caves wrote:
>
> <snippage, or is that bricolage?>
> At any rate, invented languages are collections of
> the parts of real languages. It's supposed to show that he thinks of invented
> languages as doing violence to real languages, replicating them by taking them
> apart,
> or some such thing. He talks about the "impoverishment" of natural languages
> and other such nonsense..
AAIIIEEEEE! One might as well say that anyone who has ever painted a
landscape is somehow damaging the land. Or what is a choreographer doing
to the human body by borrowing and rearranging elements of human
movement?
What was this guy smoking, anyway?
Laurie
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