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Re: Texts shaping language

From:Irina Rempt <ira@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 2, 1999, 18:34
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 ira@rempt.xs4all.nl (mailing list address) irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/frontpage.html (English) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/backpage.html (Nederlands)