Re: Lighting Some Flames: Towards conlang artistry

Raymond Brown scripsit:

> The syntax, morphology and vocabulary that is best are those most fitted
> for the objectives of the particular conlang; and these objectives are many
> and varied.  Long may they remain so!
        If we, like the inhabitants of Glubbdubbdrib, could call
        up the ghost of Shakespeare, to ask him what he *meant*
        by such-and-such a passage, he could only reply with
        maddening iteration that he *meant* it to form
        part of the play.
                --Northrop Frye (from memory)

> Long live the hobbyists and the humble craftsmen, I say.
Hear, hear.  And while we're at it, let us repudiate the notion
of artists who aren't craftspeople.  Did anyone ever hear of a
great painter who didn't happen to paint very well?

--
John Cowan <jcowan@...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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