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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. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.