Re: Language superiority, improvement, etc.

At 23:34 13/10/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I wonder if other people on this list have had that experience, of being
>carried along by some semi-conscious aesthetic impulse, arriving at a
>particular set of choices which even the conlanger himself does not fully
>comprehend.  I find myself 'discovering' new things about Tokana all the
>time.  Rather than being a consciously directed exercise in 'language
>evolution', it often feels like it has a life of its own and I'm merely
>a passive observer or recorder...
>
        It happens for me all the time! But I think that being surprised by
my own creation is very important. It shows that it has its own 'life', so
the creation has got the target I wanted to it.

>Matt.
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>Matt.
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>Matt Pearson
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>UCLA Linguistics Department
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