Re: OT: babel and english

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> Samuel Rivier wrote:
> > It would be cool if we could have a very very very
> > easy auxlang here- it would attract a very diverse
> > crowd
>
> Ah, but that's the problem! At the risk of starting another
> flame, no universally accepted metric exists to provide the
> kind of attractiveness that you're describing.  That's why,
> of course, a whole list was spun off from this one, precisely
> because people never seemed to be able to agree on the
> most important criteria.
Also, the crowd we've got is (for the most part) a very nice crowd;
if we'd attract all kinds of weirdos I don't know whether I'd stay.
I left the conlang list in (I think) 1995 exactly because all the
auxlang flaming, and didn't come back until years later when the
auxlang list was already in existence.

   Irina

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