Re: My Conlang Museum in Netscape too
From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 10:57 |
Christophe.Grandsire@bde.espci.fr writes:
>>I hope you don't mean my conlangs. They are embarrassingly
>>simple compared to y'alls langs out there. I really should
>>be working on Rinya or Laranao to come up with something
>>that I can be *proud* of showing you guys.
>>
>
> You can already be proud of what you did! Simplicity and
>complexity have
>nothing to do with esthetics. Some do complex things, some do simple
>things, but that doesn't mean that the first one is better than the
>second.
I agree. My conlangs are all fairly simple too. I'm always bewildered by
languages with complex verbal systems, 20 cases to the nouns ;), or
complex morphological processes. I feel they all are interesting, even if
i can't follow all that well. I think i've read most of all the conlang
web pages out there. Even though I am hardly a linguist, I am proud of
what I have accomplished, because I have something all my own.
Sometimes I think my languages could be more complex to be more
interesting (though, I did make the verbal system a bit more complex
recently) , but i feel that as long as I like them, it doesn't really
matter what anyone else feels. They really are for my edification, and
even though they aren't as rich as Teonaht, for instance, I still like
them for what they are, personal creations.
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