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Re: Are conlangs fictional?

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, March 22, 2002, 14:08
En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

> > Easy. Always when I am trying to figure something out, > or to reconstruct something, my brother calls me > "Sherlock" :))) >
That's cheating! :))))
> > My definition is not really a definition. It is rather > the sum of everything that remains when you leave the > rest out. So: fiction is all but non-fiction. > I think this problem applied to most definitions. >
Yes, except that you have then to define what non-fiction is. And IMO "something dealing with the real world" is about as bad a definition as can get :)) .
> > Sure. You can also use the French language for fiction > purposes, after all ;) >
Currently, I kind of use it only for that :)) .
> So we agree! >
Only if you show up at my birthday party!! ;))))) Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.