Re: CHAT: Steg's wonderful .sig (and a question)

Daniel Seriff wrote:
>
> Steg Belsky wrote:
>
> >  "Old linguists never die - they just come to voiceless stops."
>
> Steg, this quote made my day! My fiancee didn't appreciate it nearly as
> much as I did. She thinks I'm a nerd.
>
> Speaking of which, does anyone else run into this kind of attitude from
> your loved ones? Mind you, she doesn't think I should stop conlanging,
> she just lovingly teases me about my super-nerdy hobby. ;) (no offense
> if someone on the list doesn't yet realize just how nerdy we all are)
>
        My boyfriend knows that I do conlanging, but he seems to be unable to
understand the interest of it. He is an artist too (his painting is very
beautiful) but he thinks that art must be shared, that's to say that to
call something art, someone who is not acquainted in its technique must
be able to enjoy it. He accepts that I have another definition of art
(fulfillement of the artist himself) and understand that under this
definition, conlanging is art, but he doesn't share it. He also think
that I have a real talent in prose and poetry and that I should first
write them instead of inventing languages. He may have a point, but I
don't function like that. Sometimes I completely abandon conlanging for
a while to write my short stories or poems, and sometimes I do the other
way round, but in any case I have to feel it right to do it. It's a kind
of "compulsive" behaviour I think. Do others among you have also this
kind of behaviour?

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>
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