Re: CHAT: t-shirt

> Date:         Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:02:48 -0400
> From:         Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, The Gray Wizard wrote:
> 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?
I think some are, from the standpoint that working for the universal
adoption of an IAL is a moral duty, and any effort spent on Quenya (or
Klingon, or amman iar) is diverted from that project --- so Tolkien
should have used his energy on writing propaganda tracts for $IAL. For
the oldtimers: remember Ewan Boyd?

On the other hand, we offend people of that persuasion just by being
here; including Tolkien won't make any difference in their opinion of
the T-shirt.

My personal opinion, in the view of what happened last, is that an
official CONLANG project should officially exclude _all_ IAL projects,
whether succesful in the modern timeframe or not. No Lingua Ignota, no
SolReSol, no volap