Re: Psycho Conlanging Closet Hypnotized --- Film at 11!

Diana Slattery wrote:

> My own gut sense is that "conlanging" is an emergent form, a cultural "metaform" (whatever
> that means, but you get my intent of a step back from a cultural form per se--a cultural
> form about a cultural form)--perhaps call it an idea springing up spontaneously all over
> the place that then the generating nodes get to connect because of another major major
> cultural emergent form: the WWW. So suddenly the links are made and the sparks fly.
I've thought a lot about whether new paradigms are truly arising in
human culture,
as some people have posited.  I can recall several science fiction
novels in
which people were presumed to have evolved to something more than our
current
state, and new ideas, art forms, even new emotions were an expression of
this.
I sometimes think that conlanging is one such emerging artform, and that
the
pleasure we take in devising conlangs is one of those new emotions.
Maybe
we're on the cutting edge of evolution here.  It wouldn't seem odd to me
at all
that such a development was facilitated by the invention of the
Internet, which
is likely a change agent for this new paradigm in a lot of ways.

-- Terry

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