Re: CHAT: t-shirt

David wrote:

> Oh my!  Just as I was about to congratulate us all for having
> navigated the
> auxlang perils and apparently coming to a rational conclusion, we get
> anti-conlang protests.  This was not at all expected.  Surely we
> artlangers
> haven't become that myopic.  We don't judge language creations by these
> criteria here.  At least I hope we don't.  Nicole, please ignore this
> ill-considered advice!
Excuse me for sharing my opinions! </offense>. Everyone is entitled to their
opinions. When we agreed on including the conlanging "classics", I presumed
that we meant Tolkien's languages and so on, not a spin-off from a TV series
copyrighted in 1985! I suppose it depends on your definition of classic.
Still, if the majority wants it on the shirt, I'm quite happy to go along
with that, especially since it'll be written in pIqaD (which I quite like,
BTW).

As for not judging language creations by these criteria, yes we do. Justin
Rye's Ranto, and our own Geoff Eddy's critique of Esperanto, for example.
Instead of constantly criticizing E-o, why not look objectively (and I do
believe I was being objective in the main) at other languages?

Besides, I thought Klingon was copyrighted anyway? Before we decide to
include it, ought not someone check this?

Dan

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