Re: Lighting Some Flames: Towards conlang artistry
From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, March 13, 2002, 21:03 |
En réponse à Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>:
>
> Long live hobbyists and craftsmen!
>
Though I perfectly agree on that, I'm wondering whether conlanging cannot also
be an art. I tend to see conlanging as architecture: it needs a lot of
technical background to be sure that your building won't fall apart, but also a
sense of design that I can qualify only as "artistic". How is architecture
considered? Is it an art or a craftmanship?
Christophe.
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