Re: NPR interview

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, And Rosta wrote:

> How about this as an analogy:
> Conlanging is like inventing an extremely elaborate and fascinating
> game that nobody will ever play.
Doesn't work for me, I'm afraid. I work on Valdyan on the premise
that it *is* spoken, by about four million people. The fact that
every one of them is fictional, and all but a few of them exist only
in my mind (some of them exist in others' minds as well by virtue of
having been played as role-playing characters) doesn't change that
premise. Without that premise, the structure wouldn't hold; it would
be a completely arbitrary and artificial thing, a construct rather
than something organic, and I would lose interest in it because I'd
have to *make* it rather than *discovering* it.

   Irina

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