Re: Lighting Some Flames: Towards conlang artistry

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:34:39AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> IMHO there is no such thing as a "finished" work of art, merely
> works that their creators have ceased to work on.  To the creator,
> there is always room for improvement, unless he/she is a Mozart.
Many works of art in modern culture have a considered finished form,
though. A piece of music, a novel or a movie are all usually fixed at
the point of first publishing, with rare exceptions, usually when a flaw
really annoyed the artist. (I'd personally love to see the animated
version of Lord of the Rings, with some of the animation redone. But
that's just not how the movies usually work.)

A conlang, by its nature, is hard to truly complete. But there are
examples where the core of a conlang is frozen; Klingon and Esperanto
can't make new changes that invalidate what came before.

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