Re: relative weirdness (was Re: signal and noise ...)

Jörg wrote:
>Well, I have no children to tell me that I waste time with conlangs,
>but my (elder) brother does the job.  When I recently made the mistake
>mentioning the Conlang Translation Relay in a conversation about
>translation problems, he thrusted Wittgenstein's infamous argumentation
>against "private languages" at me, stating that the translations were
>inevitably meaningless and thus the whole thing a waste of time.
>When I said, "Well, it is just a game", he said nothing anymore.
>But then, he always considered me an impractical daydreamer.
Since a Relay by definition involves at least partially teaching someone
else your "private language", how can it be any more meaningless that other
invented forms of communication (eg morse code or flag signals)?

                                                 Andreas


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