Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?
| From: | Dan Jones <devobratus@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 26, 2003, 15:23 |
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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 doesn't have to be *useful*. How *useful*, exactly is the Mona Lisa? How
is being viewed making the art *useful*? Were the cave paintings of Lasceaux
"useless" before they were discovered.
> Unabridged Webster's dictionary defines language as "the words,
> their pronunciation, and the method of combining them used and
> understood by a considerable community and established by long usage".
Webster's isn't an authority. *We*, the speakers of English, are the
authority on what words mean, not one dictionary.
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Ath yw dyned can pob den o rydhad o voenyth, cynanaf â
chraveth.
o Raeth 18 o Gorlavaraed Vethysadec an Dynedad Dyneth
Deiniol Jones
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