Re: Necessity of Conculture?

Chris Peters wrote:

>         But is it possible to go the other way?  To create a language for its own
> sake?  What do the rest of y'all think?  How important is that conculture,
> as a part of the art of the conlang?
Degaspregos began as just that:  a language without any particular conculture.
When I first came up with the idea (back in highschool), I wanted to create
a language that would be more expressive than Esperanto, which was the only
conlang with which I had any familiarity at the time.  Now, of course, I think my
original goal was a little misguided, but it was fun, and I continue it now for
purely artistic/aesthetic reasons.  I'm starting on a new language, Phaleran, about
which I spoke a little bit on this list about a month ago or so. The idea of that
is just to create a whole society, and explore what it's like to do that, just like
many of the rest of y'all.  The webpages are still being created, so I'll announce
when I think they're presentable.

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