Re: CHAT: Synesthesia and conlanging (was Re: The Conlang Instinct)
| From: | Bryan Maloney <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 3, 1999, 15:14 |
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On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Grandsire, C.A. wrote:
> language as a piece of art in its structure, not only its sound. Many
> monolinguals see the structure of their language as the structure of
> their thoughts themselves (and they just can't believe you when you say
Ah! You mean the way that Aristotle saw the structure of Greek, from
which we have been so long burdened with his "logic"--which actually
should be translated as "grammar".