Audience, Uglossia, and Conlang

Sally Caves:

> > "Audience, Uglossia, and Conlang: Inventing Languages on the
> > Internet" by yours truly was accepted and posted by
> >
> >         M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture
>
> Pardon me... my first post to Conlang in three months, and I
> get the URL wrong:
>
>         it's:
>
>                 http://english.uq.edu.au/mc
> >
This made interesting reading. Conlanging is a art form, is it not? It
occurs to me, as it probably has to others before, that western society in
general regards most forms of art as things you "grow out of" doing, rather
than encouraging their continuance into adulthood as part of a balanced way
of life. For example, such activities as drawing, painting, and writing
poetry or prose are conventionally seen as pointless for an adult, unless of
course you're making a vast living from it. Doing such things for one's own
pleasure is frowned upon (and hence, in many cases, stifled). Such things,
and those who enjoy doing them, are considered childish or weird by many.
Conlanging receives a similar judgement, with the added problem of its
non-mainstream-ness as compared to painting or whatever.

<End philosophical wandering>

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