Re: Kinya (& Miapimoquitch) (was: RE: [CONLANG] Silindion)

Dirk:
> At 10:01 AM +0000 03/25/02, And Rosta wrote:
> >Aidan:
> >>      And just for ships and grims, here's my top 10 list of conlangs, since
> >>  people seem to be in a favorite Xes sort of mood. What is your top 10?
> >
> >I don't have a top 10, but Tepa/Miapimoquitch keeps on getting better and
> >better so stands out for regularly refreshing the enjoyment it gives me.
> >Indeed, while I subscribe to the 'conlanging is art' school of thought,
> >few conlangs other than Miapimoquitch give me that acuity of aesthetic
> >pleasure that I derive from works of art of more canonical sorts.
>
> You can't imagine how flattering this is to me; thanks for the kind words.
>
> It's ironic, though; unlike you I don't consider language
> construction to be an art, yet Miapimoquitch is one of the few
> conlangs you find "artistic".
I was aware of this irony; it amazes me that you could so artistically
manufacture the fabric of Miapimoquitch without appreciating it as
art. There is more than just 'language construction' -- there is
creation of the external history of the language and of its documentation
and rediscovery, which all goes into breathing life into the language.
I'd just been reading the framing introduction to the Babel Text
translation; if this is not art, what crucial ingredient does it lack,
that stops it from counting as art?

Note too that a characteristic of mature art is precisely that it
matures -- that it develops, is revised and refined; this is evident
in the 7 (or 8 or 9?) years that I've seen of the creation of
Miapimoquitch.

--And.

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