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Re: META: A CONLANG FAQ?

From:Sai Emrys <sai@...>
Date:Sunday, July 16, 2006, 21:48
On 7/16/06, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> Many attempts have been made, so far all attempts have failed. One > possible reason is that "conlang faq" is construed to mean "a faq about > conlanging, how to conlang and all things linguistic", instead of "a faq > about the weirdities and in-jokes of the conlang-l mailing list as > currently served on listserv.brown.edu, with historical footnotes for > when it was hosted elsewhere." The latter is potentially a finite > document, the former is certainly not.
I was only suggesting the latter - a CONLANG FAQ, not a conlang FAQ. :-P It should probably refer out to other sources for "how to", linguistic theory, etc., and stay purely meta. - Sai