Re: Aesthetics

Petr Mejzlík wrote:

>...The perhaps most famous experimental
>conlang, Ithkuil, sounds beautiful according to its creator JQP. I quite
>don't understand how someone can like making all those subtle distinctions
>combined with a kitchen-sinky grammar ...
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If you wish to conclude that Ithkuil is "kitchen-sinky" despite the
painstaking detail presented on the Ithkuil site explaining the rationale
behind the grammar, that is your business.  But I don't ever recall saying
to anyone at any time, either publicly or privately, whether in-person or
online, that Ithkuil "sounds beautiful", especially considering that I most
certainly do NOT believe such a characterization to be true.  Due to the
fact that Ithkuil phonology is the primary means by which the language
accomplishes its morpho-syntactic "efficiency", I long ago had to give up
any hope of giving it a "pleasing" phonaesthetics.

So if you want to state your opinion about its grammar, go ahead, but don't
assign quotes to me that I neither made nor whose content I support.

--John Quijada

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