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>Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
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>> to do with the utopic... and yet my preoccupation is primarily
>> art languages and not auxiliary languages. It always will be.
>=pablo flores
>Maybe the utopic (as in 'impossible to achieve') in conlangs
>is that we secretely look forward to living in a world where
>you can create at whim in a realm where innovation is forbidden
>or very discouraged in our society, which is language. Wouldn't
>you love to have a family of conlangers, conlanger neighbours
>and so on?
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Sally>>:
>> making up a language that has no claims to bettering society
>> or improving communications has been a major obsession of mine
>> for almost as long as I've been alive.
Pablo>
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>I think communications can't be improved by inventing a language
>or assembling it with pieces from others... That, of course, has
>never been my intent. Exposure to many languages and worldviews,
>maybe, could improve the way we understand each other.
> I learn while
>doing this, my expressive skills grow, I see things from different
>angles -- that alone is someone that this world full of one-track-
>minded people needs. But that is a side effect, and a minute one.
Well that sounds like an improvement in self-communication at least. I
certainly feel this effect of an improvement in self-communication very
strongly, I feel like things make more sense when I get a good piece of
conlang written. I think every conlanger knows this joy of discovery
which is after all self-discovery no matter how remotely the conrealm
is situated. Maybe conlanging is just a way of creating a unique set of
thought-tools for each individual so he can optimally or at least more
happily function. I suppose then that each individual would have to
create a conlang to function optimally or to fully self-realize. Maybve
Sally should offer a course at the Self Realization Fellowship here in
California. Or is it possible that we are not completely unique and
that much sharing is possible with a resultant improvement in
communication? Are we headed toward a feudal-structure world of many
conlangs as les Rempts and Nierse have described? Is it due to male
dominated societies, or is it due to sheer difference of minds?
Jerry