Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

On 25 April, Andrew Nowicki wrote:


> Are there any advantages of scribbling on paper?
Well, for one thing, there's the sheer _sensuality_ of it!
I don't consider myself a Luddite (not a complete one
anyhow! ;-)  ) and I am very thankful for all the
advantages of computer word-processing ---
I'm old enough to remember what doing high school
and college work was like without it and I certainly
would _not_ like to go back to doing things that way
again! I mean, I _am_ composing _this_ by means
of a keyboard, feeding into a computer, and I will
send it via the internet and I won't think a thing about it.
    Still, I do all my conlanging with _pencil_ and paper
(that's _pencil_, not _pen_!).
There is something about the feel of wood and graphite,
something about using the rubber eraser, something about
all the different types of paper --- the weights, the textures,
the smells, the sounds the different types of paper make as they
are handled. The sounds of the different types of leads as
they make their way over the paper --- or cardboard or
other writing surface! ( BTW, I also like chalk!
I love the different types of sound that different types of
chalk [or chalky rocks] make on different writing surfaces!)
    Re music. The ability to program a computer to make
music may be nice, and it may even have advantages in
certain settings. But, for me at any rate, it will never replace
the feeling of holding my trumpet in my hands, feeling the cold
brass, smelling the valve oil, coordinating breathing and
fingering, and even moving and dancing with it when a jam session
really gets going! I do appreciate music brought to you via electrons,
but, I would never restrict my experience of music only to that!
I'd be missing out on too much!
    I certainly don't want to deal in absolutes here, and I won't claim
that _everybody_ should feel these things. But, for the record,
I do, and I'll continue to follow the old sensual ways even as I also
adapt to and utilize the new technologies.

    Dan Sulani
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A word is an awesome thing.