Re: Yaguello

* Christophe Grandsire (grandsir@natlab.research.philips.com) [991005 15:47]:
> 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.
People that are interested in Quenya aren't necessarily linguistically
inclined, though many becomes such due to quenya, ditto for Esperanto
and Klingon. The thing is the community. Here we are, each of us a community
of one... who knows what the future may bring?


tal.
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"Better living through conlanging"