Re: What is it we are saying in our languages?

Sally wrote:
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An inspiring story!  It's something I'd love to see.  Do you have a
sample of it on your site?
 >>

Hmm...  You know, the whole reason I got this scanner was to
scan stuff.  I could scan it and link to it on the main page.  I'll let
you know when it's up.

[Groan...  Just saw that I spelled "except" as "accept" in my original
message...  I should just spell them both as "xcpt", then I'll never
have to worry again.]

Sally continues:
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But what I like about yours are the uproarious stories behind these
aphorisms!
 >>

Hee, hee...  And that's the whole point.  Thanks.  :)

Sally:
<<
Your first invented language was only six years ago?  You make me
feel ancient! ;)
 >>

Yep.  You've been conlanging since I didn't know what it was--and
before.  In fact, as a member of conlang the whole time, you've
witness my entire conlanging career, as have a few others.

Sally:
<<
now I long to have the time to write historical, political, and
philosophical texts, so that it be as Mulcaster said, defending his
sixteenth-century English against the French, "a tongue of matter."
 >>

See, that would be really neat.  I would love to sit down with an
entire book--fiction or non, verse or prose--in *any* conlang,
along with a dictionary and grammar, and figure it out.  That, I
think, would be really neat.  I as a consumer would pay for that
privilege.

On the more metaphysical side of the discussion, John writes:
<<
Conlangers simply realize that language itself can be used
as an artistic medium, i.e., a way of recreating the world in a
personally
idealized subjective fashion where the nature of the creation itself
offers
its own aesthetic and intellectual pleasure to enjoyed and subjective
mysteries to be analyzed and dwelt upon.
 >>

Yes!  That is an extremely elegant way to sum it up.  Quotable,
too (though if anyone quotes it somewhere, note that there should
be a "be" in between the "to" and "enjoyed").  Well said, John.

-David
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"A male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a."
"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."

-Jim Morrison

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