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Re: translation needed

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Thursday, October 21, 1999, 2:43
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Matt Pearson wrote:

> The author of the rant also makes a number of other interesting (fallacious) > assumptions, such as: > > (1) Conlangers (who the author is apparently confusing with LINGUISTS) > have a duty to document endangered languages. > (2) Conlangers are obsessed with constructing and discussing invented > languages, to the complete exclusion of all practical endeavours. ("Hello, > my name is Matt and I'm addicted to conlangs!") > (3) Conlangs "don't exist" and are not "real". > (4) Anything not firmly grounded in "reality" is trivial. > (5) Anything done for pure pleasure is a waste of one's life. (I can only > assume that the author considers all other forms of art and entertainment > to be similarly wasteful.)
I feel pity for anyone whose soul is so dead that they cannot understand art. They are ambulatory meat.