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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.