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Re: Yaguello

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 5, 1999, 19:10
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> 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. >
Yes, that's a problem, but even so, people have to do a lot of work to appreciate modern art, too... Just can't just go to the museum, look at a painting by Karel Appel and think, spontaneously, 'Wow! That's good, that's impressive!' - that need concious effort ;-). Boudewijn Rempt | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt