Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct
| From: | Bryan Maloney <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 2, 1999, 17:07 |
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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Gerald Koenig wrote:
> suggested in a way by Ed Heil to me. Are conlangers langesthetes? Are
I hear spoken language. I see written language (sometimes with
subvocalization). Looks like the answer is "no" for me.
> our internal perceptions of language non-standard yet fully functional?
The more naturalistic a conlang I work on appears to be, the more
satisfied I tend to be with it. You might say that I really like
"fantastical verissimilitude".
> I've always been able to get my A's in English in spite of a tremendous
> inner dissatisfaction with much of it. Maybe conlangers have an
I've no dissatisfact-ee-yun at all with English, my dee-ahr fellow. As
far as I'm concerned, my conlanging bears no qualitative difference with
any other fiction creation I indulge in.