Re: A proposal to bring together the conlang communities
From: | Michael Poxon <mike@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 19:37 |
Mmm! So who's the Stockhausen and who's the Beethoven?
Mike
> I sometimes compare the various fora to different sorts of
> musicians. My main conlang project, Old Albic, is a rather
> sophisticated naturalistic-diachronic artlang, perhaps
> comparable to a progressive rock concept album (which happens
> to be my perferred kind of music). There are not many other
> progressive rock musicians on either forum. On CONLANG, there
> are a handful of them, but also several serialist score music
> composers whose music I find less than attractive, even if
> I can appreciate its sophistication. The ZBB, in contrast,
> is a bunch of garage punk bands with a strong preference for
> obscene, abrasive lyrics, with only very few people among them
> doing anything interesting.