Re: A bunch of oxymorons?
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 17, 2001, 3:54 |
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, andrew wrote:
> Recent events have made me wonder about one thing. We have people on
> this list who are atheists, agnostics, various shades of Christianity,
> Jews, Baha'is, at least one Buddhist, possibly Daoists, but as far as I
> know no conlanger who is openly Muslim or from that community. I wonder
> about this. Historically there has been one Sufi conlanger that I know
> evidence has been found for. Is there something about Muslim conlangers
> that makes such a description an oxymoron?
You forgot Pagan. I'm a religious pagan and a philosophic Buddhist (no,
there's no contradiction at all). And I know of one other Pagan who
sometimes subscribes.
I don't believe there is a prescription against creating language in
Islam. In fact, language is one of the arts that's acceptable because it
doesn't promote the existance of any graven image.
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