Re: Don't mean to offend, but...

The "elves" thread is relevant to a survey I conducted here a few months ago, and
is useful to research I'm conducting on CONLANG, not CONCULTURES, Joao. The
business about musical composition is relevant to understanding how our minds
work; it is useful for me to know that conlangers are often composers or
software programmers. In these instances, I would ask you simply to delete.
I've been deleting all the stuff about body-types and baloney and cheese. Yes,
the list does get overwhelmed from time to time, but mostly the remarks here
are relevant, including the discussion about concultures. To ask us to forgo
the delight of talking about the people who speak our invented languages, or
the literature that pertains to them and their world, is a little much. That
kind of rigid pigeon-holing just doesn't work with an imaginative, talkative,
and synaesthetic bunch of people.

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: João Ricardo Oliveira 
  To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU 
  Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 1:52 AM
  Subject: Re: Don't mean to offend, but...


  Joe:
  > But 90% of the off-topic posts are about Natlangs. 
  > What better way is there to learn about Conlangs
  > than to learn about natlangs?

 I agree with you, so much that I wouldn't call a discussion about natlangs
"off-topic". I was refering to the threads about music composition, body
aspects, English counties, "baloney and cheese", elves etc.

 By the way, I noticed that many threads had to do with culture creation. I'm
not sure about the rules for this group, but shouldn't this kind of stuff be on
the CONCULTURE mailing list?

  João Ricardo Oliveira