Re: USAGE: (Mis)Naming a Language

In a message dated 10/27/2004 4:58:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET writes:

>I'd say that in the case of invented languages, the original inventor, i.e.,
whose language >has been in circulation longer on CONLANG, has dibs on the
name,

I'm not sure that circulation on CONLANG should be decisive, since after all
most of the world's population doesn't subscribe to this list.

However, if we've appointed ourselves to be the arbiters of names, I'd better
stake a claim.

Notice: I have conlangs under construction called Revonian, Katevan, Lorian,
and Frankish.  Now no one else on earth can use those names, since I was here
first. ;-)

Doug

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