Re: A bunch of oxymorons?
| From: | Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 17, 2001, 8:13 |
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Patrick Dunn wrote:
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> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, andrew wrote:
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> > 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.
And Humanists. I took the test at www.selectsmart.com/religion at
scored a 100% match on Secular Humanism, as expected.
As for Muslims conlanging, could that be some sort of cultural taboo? I
hear a least some Muslims consider Arabic the language of God, so maybe
tampering with a language of one's own would be regarded as
disrespectful or something?
Though that doesn't sound like the Muslims I know personally. They're
all quite decent world citizens.
-- Christian Thalmann
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