Re: CHAT: t-shirt

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, The Gray Wizard wrote:

> > From: Raymond Brown
> > Actually, most auxlangers would probably tolerate SolReSol, even tho that
> > was intended as an auxlang & achieved moderate success in its day, since
> > they no longer regard it as a serious rival.
> >
> > But if we do include the conlang 'classics' that are known to the
> > non-conlanging world, then logically Esperanto has to be included.
> >
> > There seem to me two possibilities:
> > (A) We quickly agree on which 'conlang classics' to include
> > besides our own
> > conlangs, close that list (i.e. no more argument) and politely tell any
> > whinging auxlanger that this is a CONLANG T-SHIRT, *not* an
> > auxlang T-Shirt
> > - which, of course, they are quite free to design themselves.
> > (B) We avoid the who damn auxlang issue by having only the conlangs
> > devised/invented/modelled by members of this list.
>
> Is there no room for a third possibility (an extension of your (B)) that
> would admit artlang classics like Quenya and Sindarin?
If more venerable and wiser list-members were amenable, I like David's
B-extension suggestion.  It seems almost shameful to exclude Tolkien (and
others of whom I probably haven't heard, being fairly new to this)
because of auxlang issues.  Would an auxlanger by offended by Tolkien?

Curious,
YHL