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Re: CHAT: Conlanging has the Hacker nature? (was Re: CHAT: music // was Leaf script)

From:Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Monday, August 30, 2004, 16:18
Paul Bennett jazdy:

> Also > listed among the traits are a tendency to be more liberal in sexual > attitudes,
No.
> a disregard for rules that get in the way of doing fun work,
Yes, yes and yes!
> a > love of spicy food,
No. Let it be salty, acid (read: add vinegar) and dressed with mayonnaise and/or ketchup...
> an interest in the martial arts,
No.
> an appreciation of > word-play,
Yes. Tons of puns, pons of tuns.
> and a feeling that the line between work and play can be > blurry.
Absolutely yes.
> Perhaps conlangers can be described as hackers of the > linguistic realm?
I rrreally like this idea. My wife used to say: "Darling, you would take a language, open it with a pocket knife like a can, and eat without adding salt and onion". -- Yitzik the Poisonous Snakie, an amateur linguohacker.

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