Conlang as we know it, barely crosses the surface..
There is a whole dimension to the visual parts of a language..
I know, cause I can understand a few words of Russian, but cause
of looking and reading their facial and body language, I can
understand alot more..
Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Quijada" <jq_ithkuil@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: Back from Berkeley, and still grinning.
> Sally Caves wrote:
> >GREAT conference! ... Learned a lot about
> >language and its intricacies and differences, its various
cognitive
> >dimensions as well as its structures. Conlanging is harder
than ever! :)
> >
> >Bravo!
> >
> >Sally
>
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> And bravo to you, Sally! Your talk was the perfect way of
starting off the
> conference -- an insightful, witty, provacative, at times
dramatic, and
> ultimately profound commentary on the conlanging art -- from
both historical
> and contemporary perspectives. It really set the tone for the
conference --
> fun but meaningful. By the end of your talk, I felt more
proud than ever to
> be a practitioner of the Increasingly-Less-Secret Vice.
>
> --John Quijada
>
> p.s. a post on the ZBB by one of our fellow attendees
describes meeting you
> as "kick-patootie." If that means what I think it does, I
heartily agree! ;-)