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Re: Lighting Some Flames: Towards conlang artistry

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 20:16
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Dirk Elzinga wrote:

> 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.
*nods* I also resolve to give more attention to the grammatical posts that come my way. That'll be my "school": respecting people's languages the way I'd like tthem to respect mine, by giving them attention and criticism. --Patrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prurio modo viri qui in arbore pilosa est. ~~Elvis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~