Re: Lighting Some Flames: Towards conlang artistry

En réponse à Dirk Elzinga <Dirk_Elzinga@...>:

> Hey.
>
> Having blathered on for four paragraphs, I failed to recognize what I
> felt to be the most cogent part of Jesse's original posting; the lack
> of critical repsonses to each other's work. While I don't think that
> we should formally declare "schools" of conlanging aesthetic (since I
> don't believe language construction to be an art, and also because we
> seem to have formed de facto schools already), I do hope that we can
> give the grammatical posts which come our way more careful attention.
> I, for my part, resolve to do this and to provide more feedback on
> phonological matters which come up. I think we owe it to each other
> to be more responsive to each other's work; that's why I joined the
> list oh so many years ago -- to see what others had to say about my
> ideas and to say something about the ideas of others.
>
Yep! That's why I don't always reply to the grammatical sketches of people. If
I don't feel I can give some constructive critics besides "it's great!" or "it
sucks!", I prefer to stay silent. It's true that I should be more responsive to
others. The only problem is that to be responsive, you must first have
something interesting to say :)) ...

Just to say that people here who do not reply don't do that mandatorily for
lack of good will, but probably more for lack of knowledge.

Christophe.

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