Re: Texts shaping language

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, list James E. Hopkins wrote:

> It really depends on one's desire as to how isolated from the everyday "Earth"
> experience one wants the people that speak one's language to be.
> That is if your language is situated in its own conceptual world at all.
This grates on me - when writing things in Valdyan I'm not
*concerned* with "how isolated from the everyday Earth experience I
want the people that speak it to be", I want them to be true to
themselves, and the language to be true to them, without even
thinking about differences and similarities to the world that I
happen to live in.

The reason that I don't want Valdyan culture to be influenced by the
Bible is that they have their own holy books that have nothing to do
with ours; not that I want it to be "isolated from the everyday Earth
experience". That is simply not relevant.

   Irina
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