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Hobby Hostility
Jul. 17th, 2010 02:29 pmPet Peeve #472
PRETENTIOUS BUM COWORKER: You invent languages? You know what I wonder? There are plenty of languages already. Why not learn one of those?
You know, no matter how many times I’m asked this question, I never cease to be amazed by it. It is completely irrelevant, and yet it, or variations of it,* are so often the first one people ask about conlanging.
Just once I’d like to hear that about some other more mainstream form of creativity. “There are plenty of poems/movies/paintings/books/quilts already. Why not just appreciate those?”
However, the biggest bit of bullshit there was that this guy insisted he was not insulting me; he was Just Askin’. Yeah, right. If he had really been Just Askin’, he’d have listened to my answer.
*“Wouldn’t that time be better-spent resurrecting a dead language?”
PRETENTIOUS BUM COWORKER: You invent languages? You know what I wonder? There are plenty of languages already. Why not learn one of those?
You know, no matter how many times I’m asked this question, I never cease to be amazed by it. It is completely irrelevant, and yet it, or variations of it,* are so often the first one people ask about conlanging.
Just once I’d like to hear that about some other more mainstream form of creativity. “There are plenty of poems/movies/paintings/books/quilts already. Why not just appreciate those?”
However, the biggest bit of bullshit there was that this guy insisted he was not insulting me; he was Just Askin’. Yeah, right. If he had really been Just Askin’, he’d have listened to my answer.
*“Wouldn’t that time be better-spent resurrecting a dead language?”
