Re: All Praise the Fount of All Knowledge! was Re: Lighting Some Flames

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> From: Peter Clark [mailto:pc451@YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: 13 March 2002 14:20
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> Subject: All Praise the Fount of All Knowledge! was Re: Lighting Some
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> On Wednesday 13 March 2002 04:59 am, John Cowan wrote:
> > Kala Tunu scripsit:
> > > but will there ever be any a nonconlanging
> > > public for conlangs? i doubt it.
> >
> > Well, I sort of constitute such a public.  I mean, I'm a
> *really marginal*
> > conlanger: I made up a phonology once, and I've played
> around with my
> > own engelang, though even there I stole most of its ideas from other
> > people, and I wrote a book documenting an engelang that I had
> > absolutely nothing to do with inventing and have only written a few
> > pieces in.
> >
> > But y'all seem to tolerate me around here anyway.
>
>         That's simple; you are the lists's Living Google, the
> Master of Knowledge, the Poccessor of Arcane Trivia! Why,
> without you, this list would quickly degenerate into Apathy
> and Despair.
That, and who else would maintain the essentialist explainations.