Re: Uglossia and Utopia
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 23, 1999, 7:31 |
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Matt Pearson wrote:
> If this is the case, then a utopia is properly not
> a (proposed) "improvement upon society", but rather a model for
> testing/exploring/expressing certain ideas about society. Perhaps
> if you adopt this (non-idiomatic, literary) understanding of "utopia" as
> a creative form of social criticism and analysis, then you could view
> artlanging as "utopic".
Yes, if social criticism and analysis is one of your goals; but for
many people it isn't. "What's it for?" is a common question, and most
of us will answer "For fun".
Irina
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