The CONLANG cheat-sheet
Cliff Crawford
On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> * The short, (usually) uppercase words on the subject-line that ends with
> a colon are topic-markers. You can instruct the listserver not to send you
> mails sorting under a specific topic, see Davids explanation of it, but
> why would anyone do that? :-) The topics are: CHAT, THEORY, USAGE and NGL.
You forgot 'MIA', for Mia-isms. :)
> I should perhaps add that, statistically speaking, conlangers tend to
> be left-handed, gay and goateed :-)
I thought we tend to be bi, not gay! ;)
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Don Blaheta
I'm normally not picky on spelling, but here I'm proofing a document
for web-publishing...
Quoth taliesin the storyteller:
> "CONLANG: the quintessencial mailing list
"quintessential"
> The list is currently owned by David G. Durand, and it is housed on a
owned->maintained
> * IALs (International Auxiliary Language)s, like esperanto and lojban,
> have their own list: AUXLANG.
Is lojban an auxlang? Anyway, it's not like esperanto and lojban
can't be discussed on CONLANG, it's just that if you discuss them on
CONLANG you should discuss their conlangy aspects, how they were
constructed etc. Conversely, languages discussed on AUXLANG don't
have to be constructed, although they usually are.
> * English is not necessarily the first language of the list's
> participants; critizising the spelling is not the way to go.
"criticizing" or maybe "criticising". Heh.
> * And finally: all other more or less formal rules of netiquette applies,
"apply"
> I should perhaps add that, statistically speaking, conlangers tend to
> be left-handed, gay and goateed :-)
You should. ;)
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Bruce R. Gilson
Don Blaheta wrote:
>> I should perhaps add that, statistically speaking, conlangers tend to
>> be left-handed, gay and goateed :-)
>You should. ;)
By any chance, is Don any or all of the above?
For that matter, is Taliesin (whose document Don quotes) any or all of the
above?
(I am none of these. However such matters as my sexuality, in particular, are
not for public consumption, though I will communicate these things with people
I trust.)
Bruce R. Gilson
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John Cowan
Don Blaheta scripsit:
> > * IALs (International Auxiliary Language)s, like esperanto and lojban,
> > have their own list: AUXLANG.
>
> Is lojban an auxlang?
Probably not, in the sense that Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, etc.
are: languages designed primarily for communication between people
who have different native languages. Lojban has been *used* as
an IAL, certainly; some people think it would make a good IAL;
AFAIK, nobody thinks it should be *the* IAL.
--
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Don Blaheta
Quoth Bruce R. Gilson:
> Don Blaheta wrote:
> >> I should perhaps add that, statistically speaking, conlangers tend to
> >> be left-handed, gay and goateed :-)
>
Yes.
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Ferenc Valoczy
> > >> I should perhaps add that, statistically
speaking, conlangers tend to
> > >> be left-handed, gay and goateed :-)
What if you're right-handed, straight and clean
shaven? Does that mean I'm not allowed to be a
conlanger?
;-)
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John Cowan cusku:>> Is lojban an auxlang?
>
>Probably not, in the sense that Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, etc.
>are: languages designed primarily for communication between people
>who have different native languages. Lojban has been *used* as
>an IAL, certainly; some people think it would make a good IAL;
>AFAIK, nobody thinks it should be *the* IAL.
There are some people, but I would have trouble remembering names, since this
is not often talked about. There are a couple of people who feel that
if there is to be an IAL, it would have to be something culturally neutral
in the manner that Lojban tries to be, and perhaps something logical as well.
The late Faith Rich, a long-time supporter of the Loglan Project is the best
example I can think of. She died in her 80s around half a dozen years ago,
but her sole interest in Loglan (and Lojban) seemed to be in its IAL
potential (and she favored a single IAL).
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John Cowan
Ferenc Valoczy wrote:
> What if you're right-handed, straight and clean
> shaven? Does that mean I'm not allowed to be a
> conlanger?
> ;-)
No, no. That is only the statistic, and you are not
a statistic. You are a datum.