Re: CHAT: Bob's Introduction

At 23:39 01.3.2000 +0100, Robert Hailman wrote:
>Which sculptor was it that said that when they make a sculpture, they
>are really just finding the form hidden in the marble reather than
>creating something original? That sounds what you're talking about. My
>language isn't really like that, at least not yet. I haven't done too
>much work on it, so that can change.

Does Michelangelo Buonarotti ring a bell? ;-)>

And yes, conlanging is just like that for most practitioners.  Including old
JRRT -- we have his own word for that!

With me it mostly just gets to getting that phonology summing around in my
head on paper/disc, so that it won't plop out my mouth and annoy my wife! ;-/>




/BP

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