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Re: [westasianconlangs] Fwd: borrowed translation



 --- Kay skrzypszy: 

> Thank you, Yitzik and Jan, for the links and explanation.

You're welcome! I hope you will enjoy the groups.

> Conlangs seems very interesting. I ve signed up some of them. Got amazed
> by contributors' love for language!

Remarkable, isn't it? The funny thing is that most conlangers have had an
initial period during which they though they thought they were (almost) the
only ones, and that conlanging was an aberration of some sort. The common
feeling when we finally discovered the world of conlangers could best be
described as "Wow!".

> A religion-free language, which I was looking for, might be a conlang,
> because natlangs can't be divided from culture, history and religion of
> their users. 

I'm afraid I can't really follow your here. In my view, a language is merely a
means of communication. You can use it for communicating religious content as
well as non-religious. I wouldn't say that any text written in Biblical Hebrew
is carrying any religious burden; you can also translate "Das Kapital" or
Stephen King's "It" into it, without making it any more or less religious.

Jan

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