Re: Detailed Hyper-realities: The Conlang Instinct

Doug Ball wrote:

> Count me in, too. I played the piano for 12 years, and percussion for 4.
> The two instruments/ instrument groups are so influential on each other that
> I like to consider myself a piancussionist.  (I also played the viola for 3
> years in middle school, but I quit at the beginning of high school.  I was
> never especially good at it).  And I also love composing, so much that it
> seems that it is hard to tell whether I have more of passion for conlanging
> or composing.
We need to set you up with some kind of website and RealPlayer, Doug!
But
if you have long compositions, you'll have a huge soundfile.  Do you
consider
making up a language, your Skerre, as a kind of musical composition?
What
are the features that they share in common?

Sally
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