Re: Aesthetics

Oops.. The line "If I'm looking at a language and I can reasonably..."
should say, "If I'm looking at a language and I canNOT reasonably..."
Sorry. my son interrupted me several times while I was typing this posting
to help him with his homework. I guess I'm a parent before I'm a conlanger
:-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On
Behalf Of Scotto Hlad
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:16 PM
To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
Subject: Re: Aesthetics

I come to conlanging as an artlanger. Other than one high school class in
linguistics in 1977 (!) I have no formal training in linguistics. I have
however formally studied (in order) German, French, Latin, Portuguese, (NT)
Greek and (OT) Hebrew. Informally were Czech, Polish, and Russian. Anything
that I do is strictly by "instinct" only with everything done based on how
it "feels" and "looks." Much of the linguistic discussion in this group is
lost on me (sadly!) but I muddle through as best as I can.

For that reason, I paricularly like what you said,  J