At 7:14 AM -0400 5/4/99, From
Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote:
>(it's good to know that "serious" linguists indulge in conlanging - that
>wipes guilt off amateurs' conscience :-).
Well I'm not a linguist. I don't even play one on TV. Computer Science, I'm
afraid.
>May I ask you why "finally.. without guilt" ? Is it that graduating allows
>you to conlang freely ? Or maybe did your doctorate thesis regard conlanging
>? Do your professors know you're a conlanger ?
Time spent conlanging is no longer time stolen from my dissertation. For
that matter time spent doing anything is no longer time stolen from working
on the dissertation.
>What is dangerous is thinking Language as something out of human reach and
>therefore intangible and sacred and the property of self-proclaimed Great
>Priests. I claim for the freedom of using language as one wishes ;-).
I think we all do, by definition. We are the advance guard of the
Linguistic Liberation Front!
- David
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