Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

In a message dated 2003:04:21 03:04:16 PM, robertg@KNOLOGY.NET writes:

>I respectfully and politely must ask you to consider that you've
>missed the point.  I think to most of us these are works of art
>(Mau's work certainly is, and I consider Ninfeano and my own Singala
>to be works of art).  So here we get in to the question of whether
>or not art must be "useful" (a tool) or is it useful in itself?  Not
>prepared to go in to art axiology right now, but I must insist that
>art and personal expression are lofty enough aims.  After all, isn't
>that what language is: personal expression?

"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"]


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    [Latin > "Art is the imitation of Nature in her manner of operation."]


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