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Re: Conlang Poetry

From:Aidan Grey <grey@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 19:17
But poetry _is_ a visual art too! Else why would ee cummings do things the way
he did?

At any rate, we can agree it's an art form. That's good enough!

Aidan

Quoting Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:
> No, to me conlanging is rather a kind of visual art. I find it very > important > what a word, a sentence, or a whole text looks like; usually, I first create > a > word and then start of think about how it sounds (sometimes I even forget > that). That might be also the reason that I really dislike to write anything > in > IPA or X-SAMPA or whatever, and when I see something written like that, the > first thing I wonder is what it looks like. > So, keep it short, terms like "glossopoetry" don't cover the load, at least > for > me.