Re: art and language: was, lexicon

Sally Caves scripsit:

> Language is an art.  You can speak and write it with minimal or maximal
> skill.
This reminds me of the famous occasion on which a King of England toured
a newly opened cathedral and denounced it, to the architect no less, as
"awful, pompous, and artificial".

But no, Charles II was in fact praising Christopher Wren's work on
St. Paul's -- as "awe-inspiring, majestic, and ingeniously designed".
(Note the "art" in "artificial".)

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