Re: translation needed

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.