Re: New Survey: Celtic Conlangs (and other lunatic pursuits)

Quoting Roberto Suarez Soto <ask4it@...>:

> On Jan/05/2003, Aidan Grey wrote:
>
> >   Mutations, conjugated prepositions,
>
>         Conjugated prepositions?! =:-m Could you (or anyone) elaborate
> on this?
>
   For example, Irish 'liom' with/by + 1s, thus with me. Conjugated
prepositions are prepositions with suffixed/incorporated objects.


> >   Conlangers are artists, in particular poets.
>
>         Tangentially, I'm not sure if I agree with this. Not that I
> qualify as conlanger, but anyway I do it mostly because there's a big
> rational effort in making all the pieces of the language mix in a logic
> manner :-) So, for me at least, there's a part of pure artistical
> impetus (the sound and "look" of the language), and then a very
> entertaining (and sometimes mind-boggling :-)) part of almost
> mathemathic (sp?) precision (the grammar itself).
>
  Okay, then how about artlangers are poets? Loglangers are mathemeticians?


>         Though, thinking more about it ... I suppose it's very similar
> to any art :-m There are both a rational part and an inspirational part
> involved. So maybe I have to agree with you, after all this r:-)
  See how you are! ;)

  Aidan