Re: OT: 10th anniversary of the founding of Conlang

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Shreyas Sampat wrote:

> : A number of members of the ur-list (Rick Morneau, Rick Harrison -- I
> : think they were on the ur-list, but you have the history straighter than
> : me) are still kicking around and conlanging but couldn't handle the
> : high traffic of conlang (or, I speculate, the huge shift in topic bias
> : to subscribers' artlangs that occurred from 1993 or so).
>
> What was the bias before that?
That was about when I joined; it was pretty aux/loglangy at the
time, with a dash of Klingon from Mark Shoulson.

Since my bias is obviously artlangy, I suppose that means I was
partly responsible for the shift ...

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga                          dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu

"The strong craving for a simple formula
has been the undoing of linguists."               - Edward Sapir

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