Andrew Nowicki <andrew@...> writes:
> There are computer programs which make music, so I will not be
> surprised if a computer program makes grammar and vocabulary
> of a language. I could not distinguish such a computer-generated
> language from a language made by a human artist.
Not that I believe in inspiration or any special properties of
the human mind that cannot be imitated. This may happen in the
future. But so far it hasn't, and your statement just doesn't
affect the artistic qualities of anyone's conlang -- it only
shows your inability to make such distinctions.
> Would it be desirable to run the language-making program round
> the clock and have it post its new languages on the web at a
> rate of, say, one language per hour?
We already have TV and the cinema industry doing a similar thing
round the clock and passing it for art, so why not? As soon as
one is free to ignore it... ;)
--Pablo Flores
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/index.html
"Your freedom justifies our war."
(Niccolò Macchiavelli -- slightly paraphrased.)