Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

en mem0 2003:04:27 09:06:52 g0zen, David (dvdeug@ISPWEST.COM) graeffii:

>On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 04:42:47PM +0100, Dan Jones wrote:
>
>> Art is what sets us aside from
>> animals- not science and technology. Apes can use and make tools, but
>>they don't make art, this is solely the preserve of humanity and,
>
>http://www.abslogic.com/AnimalArt.htm
>
>Your anthropocentrism is showing through.
    Thanx, David! Great website! ::eagerly adds to collection::
    I was gonna suggest the Koko website as well (koko.org)... Koko is the
Highland gorilla who uses ASL (American Sign Language) and does really
terrific colourful fingerpaintings as does her gorilla-pal Michael (makes one
wonder if Jackson Pollock was re-incarnated as Michael... if so, Michael
seems to be doing a better job this time around with colours IMHO ;) -
brighter, more coordinated and somehow "meaningful"... probably the fact that
Michael is not an emotionally-unstable drunkard like Pollock influences the
artwork.)

    Overheard in a coffeehouse in the People's Republic of Berkeley:
    "... Anthropocentricism - like blatant sexism - is _soooooo_ mid-20th
century..."
    "Late 20th-"
    "_Whaaaateveeeer_..."

---
Hanuman Zhang, _Gomi no sensei_ [Master of junk], part-time animal art critic,
& eavesdroppin' Gatherer of Extremely Enlightening Knowledge (or GEEK, for
short ;)
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    "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"]

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