META: Re: CONLANG jargon WAS: How to spell a gesture
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 19, 2005, 0:34 |
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:48:06 -0800, Sai Emrys <saizai@...> wrote:
> ... for the relatively new folk like me, could someone provide a list
> of all the jargon & acronyms used on this list? (As in, conlang-l
> specific jargon, not linguistic terms in normal use.)
ANADEW - A Natlang Already Does it, Except Worse
YAPT - Yet Another Pronunciation Thread, a generalisation from
YAEPT - Yet Another English Pronunciation Thread
AFMCL - As For My Conlang
Maggelity - The property of being utterly horrific, yet allegedly regular
IB - Ill Bethisiad. An alternate Earth where a number of on- and off-list
conlangs exist.
Types of conlang:
natlang - Natural language (i.e. a real one)
artlang - Any conlang that is not an auxlang
auxlang - An intrinsically doomed project ;-)
engelang - An engineered language. I'm not sure of the exact shade of
meaning implied.
lostlang - A conlang that could concievably be real, and which is
presented as such
loglang - A logical language
toylang - A gedanken plaything, usually pretty ephemeral
romlang - Latin-derived Conlang
ielang - PIE-derived Conlang
Most of the other names for languages derived from real languages are
fairly transparent.
... and many more!!!
Paul
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