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Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Sunday, April 27, 2003, 0:52
>> Joe Fatula scripsit: > >> > What is the use of art? It seems to me that it has only one use, to >>provide enjoyment or entertainment.
John Cowan" <cowan@...>:
>> Art expresses, communicates, and enlightens.
Is provocation separate from enlightenment or subsumed in it? In a message dated 2003:04:26 11:11:31 AM, scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET writes:
>To instruct and to delight. Philip Sydney, I believe, quoting Horace, >I believe, quoting Plato, I believe.
And to shock, I would add. --- Hanuman Zhang, _Gomi no sensei_ [Master of junk] & Gatherer of Extremely Enlightening Knowledge (or GEEK, for short ;) ••• "To live is to scrounge, taking what you can in order to survive. So, since living is scrounging, the result of our efforts is to amass a pile of rubbish." - Chuang Tzu/Zhuangzi, China, 4th Century BCE "The most beautiful order is a heap of sweepings piled up at random." - Heraclitus, Greece, 5th Century BCE Ars imitatur Naturam in sua operatione. [Latin > "Art is the imitation of Nature in her manner of operation."] "The usefulness of the useless is good news for artists, for art serves no useful purpose. It has to do with changing minds and spirits." - John Cage "We do not make art to say what it is, we make art to ask, 'WHAT IS IT?????'' - Robert Wilson " jinsei to iu mono wa, kichou na geijyutsu to ieru deshou " [Japanese > "one can probably say that 'life' is a precious artform"] -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GFA/H/L/MC/MU/SS d--- s: a39 C++ U? P L- E-- W N-- o-- K--- w--- O-- M+ V-- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP-- t-- 5++ X+ R- /R* tv+ b++++ DI-- D-- G e++ h* r y++** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.geekcode.com/

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