Re: Yaguello

Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> >         Isn't there a discipline called "interlinguistics"? Or is it focussed
> > on IALs?
>
> As far as I know, yes, specifically to study the use of intermediate
> languages for machine translation. Interlinguistics will some day
> give us the Universal Translator, but it will never give us
> recognition for making languages as a form of art.
>
        The main problem, IMHO, is that you need not be a painter to appreciate
paintings, a musician to appreciate music and so on. But it seems that
to be able to appreciate the art of a conlang, one must already have a
so strong interest in that field that s/he is nearly always a conlanger
him/herself. Of course there may be exceptions. But I know none of them.

>    Irina
>
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