Re: Subject: Re: CONLANG/ZBB crossover (WAS: CONLANG article deleted from Wikipedia)

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From: "Sai Emrys" <sai@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: CONLANG/ZBB crossover (WAS: CONLANG article
deleted from Wikipedia)


> *nod*
>
> What, then, of the antagony between artlangers and auxlangers?
>
> - Sai
>
It's not "antagony" as such. It's a divergence of interests. After the
CONLANG/AUXLANG list schism, I was on both lists for a while. Imagine that
you are an auxlanger. How many threads on convoluted, a priori languages
spoken by fictional aliens would you want to have to sort through? And if
you are an artlanger, how many threads regarding the pros and cons of, say,
Novial vs. Esperanto vs. LanguageXByAuxlangerY, down to the minutiae of the
matter,  do you want in your inbox? Even if you do both, separate lists make
for easier filtering. Yay, filters!

My interest in auxlangs is purely from a design perspective, so I eventually
wandered away from AUXLANG. I recently worked up a little fauxlang, just as
a little joke between me and myself. The entire grammar fit on a 3x5 index
card. I started to write a post for this list about it, which still sits in
my draft box. I misplaced the index card sometime after I started the
e-mail. I'm just THAT organised... I called it Enegelesa. The vocabulary was
based entirely on English. (Laugh. It's supposed to be funny.)

Mia.