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Re: Impossible Gibberish (was Re: On the design of an ideal language)

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 2, 2006, 7:30
Hanuman Zhang wrote:

>Methinx that "non-sense" and/or "incorrect" are quite >socio-culturally-dependent and subjective. > >Ferinstanz, to average monolinigual American with the bare minimum of 4 yrs >of college or less, James Joyce's _Finnegans Wake_ is impossiblly hermetic >"non-sense"... and auxlangs like Interlingua or Novial "incorrect," vaguely >Eurolang gibberish. > > >
I agree, actually. A language where you *cannot* construct nonsense would seem to restrict creativity.