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Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Saturday, April 26, 2003, 19:35
One more comment, forgive me.

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From: "Dan Jones" <devobratus@...>


> Andrew Nowicki wrote: > > > If someone tells me that he loves to sing or to paint, but does > > not share his art with anyone, I am skeptical. Art is useful > > when it is admired by a large number of people.
Art is useful when it soothes and pleases the artist. Consider art therapy. My mother is an artist, and a teacher who teaches art to senior citizens and to children. The artist is materially and socially rewarded (a different concept) when it is lauded by institutions and venues that display and critique his art. Our "institution and venue" is our listserv. Many of us have felt rewarded by the admiration of the numbers of people on the list who have seen and liked our artlangs and said so. We are certainly sharing what we do here. It is a small venue, but a valid one. Let's get away from this pompous notion that art is only useful when it has prestige. Sally Caves scaves@frontiernet.net Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo. "My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."

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