Re: Real Conlangs Here, Made-to-Order!

From: "Estel Telcontar" <estel_telcontar@...>

> --- Herman Miller ha tera roha a:
>
> > I like the definition Wendy Carlos gave on a
> > Nova program "What is Music?" a few years back.
> > Music is "organized sound". With a broad enough
> > interpretation of "organized", even some of the
> > more unusual works by John Cage could fall under
> > that definition.
>
> > Now, most of our conlangs could also be described
> > as "organized sound", so I guess that agrees perfectly
> > with Sally Caves' description of conlangers as
> > "word musicians"!
>
> I guess all languages would count as music under that
> definition: what is phonology but an organization of
> sounds?  Except sign language, of course (dance instead?),
> and any purely written language.
Sound (and music) is vibration, thus movement, of atoms as interpreted by
ears. Sign language and dance are types of body movement as interpreted by
eyes. So they're definitely two expressions of perhaps the same thing.