Re: Messages in conlang (jara: Results of Poll by Email No. 23)

On Friday 21 February 2003 1:41 pm, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>  --- Peter Clark skrzypszy:
> > I should
> > point out that a couple of years ago, we had a fellow on the list who
> > posted almost exclusively in his conlang; alas, that made communication
> > rather difficult. Don't do that unless you post a translation in Dutch,
> > please.
>
> Well, doesn't the readability of such a message depend largely on the kind
> of conlang it is written in? AFAICT, Padraic has the habit of writing
> messages (almost) entirely in Kerno. Personally, I take great pleasure
> decyphering them. From time to time, these messages seem to result in small
> Kerno translation games.
> Perhaps I should try once to write a message in Wenedyk. But alas, apart
> from the encoding problems, Wenedyk underwent more radical sound changes
> than Kerno, and I doubt very much if people could understand it.
>
> Jan
>
>
Yes, I think John said that any language is permitted for use on this list,
it's just that English is the only one to use if you want to be understood.

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