Re: Language superiority, improvement, etc.
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 15, 1998, 4:42 |
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On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:34:07 -0700, Matt Pearson <mpearson@...> =
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...
I frequently feel that way about the alien societies and characters I =
write
about, which naturally have an influence on the languages designed for
those societies. I less frequently have that kind of experience with
languages designed for experimental purposes.