Re: On nerds and dreamers

on 3/2/05 1:02 PM, Jörg Rhiemeier at joerg_rhiemeier@WEB.DE wrote:

> <...> Many dreamers are conlangers, and their conlangs
> are often naturalist and usually quite fanciful and accompanied
> by elaborate conculture.  A nerd could never build something like
> Quenya or Tsolyani; it takes a dreamer to do that.
    I would have to agree to that wonderful insight.
IMHO Auxlangers tend to be rather nerdy-centric &/or "control-freakish
idealists."


--

Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger


     Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...


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title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_