Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

> > British queen
> > Elisabeth went as far as making stencils for painters
> > to improve the beauty of her images. If Mona Lisa had
> > had the Nikon Coolpix camera, she would have hired
> > a painter anyway, because painters do not paint wrinkles.
>
>They don't???   Look at Rembrandt.  Look at any number of contemporary
>realist painters. Andrew Wyeth.  A lot of Paul Cadmus.  "X does not do >Y."
>"You guys don't create 'real' conlangs."  These absolutes bother
>me.  But we've been there, already.
This is what pushes my buttons also - not that he (or she - we don't really
know) holds these options and voices them, but that s/he always presents
them in abolutes.

One person here admonished us to cut Andrew slack as English was not his
native language. But, even given that, if he is intelligent, he must have
realized by now that his usage is taken by many as confrontational. I see no
apologies from him, nor any attempts to modify his approach. This to me
smacks of the too-common attitude today that general rudeness is somehow
cool & appropriate.


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