Re: OT: Artlanging is now mainstream

On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:32 AM, taliesin the storyteller wrote:

> I occasionally do a deep google on 'conlang' just to see if something
> new has come along. Today I found:
>
>     http://blog.nihilarchitect.net/archives/161/161/
>
> Warning, it's both long and ranty and a bit angsty.
>
> So: first we had the auxlang/conlang split, and now we have a, what,
> artlang/engelang split? Artlang/artlang split? Inspired-by-natlang-
> lang
> vs. cannot-occur-naturally-lang split?
>
> I dunno, but it resembles those sections in Monty Python's "Life of
> Brian" where the People's Front of Judea is more busy fighting the
> Judean
> People's Front, the Judean Popular People's Front and the Popular
> Front of Judea etc. instead of fighting the romans.
>
> So, we're no longer in the closet, for those outside we're looking
> more
> like those art-circles that split into more and more smaller and
> smaller
> groups, all sniping at each other instead of making, you know, art.
I think this person IS a conlanger, not a "mainstream" outsider.

Hopefully no one feeds the troll...

>
> I'd like me a lifelong artists' grant now, please, for surely that
> comes
> next?
>
>
> t.