Re: Lighting Some Flames towards conlang artistry
From: | Aquamarine Demon <aquamarine_demon@...> |
Date: | Sunday, March 17, 2002, 4:00 |
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>>2. Since conlangs tend to be idiosyncratic, and tend to assert their
creators' individuality, I see no point in dividing the list into
"schools." Labels like "naturalistic," "exotic," and "logical" should be
seen as points on a continuum, not pigeonholes in which conlangers should
feel confined.
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Jim G.*<<
I love the way you stated this, since language itself works in this very
way. Even the sounds that make up languages are points on a continuum, and
languages themselves rarely, if not never, fit completely into the
categories that linguists set up.
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The Aquamarine Demon
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and poetry." -Edgar Allan Poe
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the
parts that I do understand." -Mark Twain
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