Re: conlanging and journaling

 --- Jörg Rhiemeier skrzypszy:

> I sometimes write music myself, which I intend to perform some day.
I truly hope for an occasion to hear (or read) it!

BTW, I realise this is pretty much off-topic as far as this thread is
concerned, but this reminds me of thing I have always been curious
about.

It has always been my opinion that conlanging is primarily an art.
Just like music, literature, painting etc. A good artist has a
personal style, which makes his art recognisable as his own, and
distinguishes it from the work of others. A work by Stravinsky or
Picasso, no matter in what period it was created, can instantly be
recognised as such. Can the same be said about conlangs? And, more
importantly, if a conlanger is also a painter / composer / poet /
whatever, is there a link, stylistically speaking, between his
language(s) and his other art?

> > I have the impression that nowadays there are a lot of conlangers
> > who actually started conlanging AFTER they saw conlangs online.
> > They start conlanging because there are others doing it as well.
> > [...]
>
> Yes.  Old Albic would not be the way it is now without the online
> conlanging community.  Many of its features are inspired by what
> I saw in other people's conlangs.  Well, nobody exists in
> isolation; we are all influenced by what we see around us.
That is certainly true. Yet, I would still describe you as a
conlanger of the Old School, i.e. somebody who started conlanging,
while being completely unaware of the fact that other people are, or
might be, doing the same. For me that is definitely the case. When I
made my first attempts at conlanging, I'm pretty sure I had never
heard of Quenya or Klingon; all I knew about constructed languages
created by others was Esperanto, but that's an entirely different
kind of thing. On the other hand, I also think the conlang community
has heavily influenced my work; the very fact that I think expanding
and improving a language is worth the effort alone is an example of
that.

Regards,
Jan

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