Re: Betreft: Re: Steg's wonderful .sig (and a question)

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> Rob Nierse wrote:
>
> > About justifying your conlang: this is my standard answer:
> >
> > "I can't justify."
>
> How do you justify that for which the very idea of "justification"
> makes no sense?  Does it makes sense to "justify" the Mona Lisa,
> or the Sistine Chapel? After the fact, maybe (in this line of thinking:
> because they make money for the Louvre/Vatican) -- but not
> when the artists involved were first thinking about the idea.
>
I tend to answer that men is created to create - creating is
the justification for the creation. When I'm making a conlang,
I'm doing what I've been made for - when I'm making money not.

I admit that this answer tends to get weird looks ;-).

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt