Re: artlangs/auxlangs/engelangs (was Re: LCC2: Meeting our Community)
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 18, 2007, 18:51 |
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Hallo!
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:47:58 -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On 7/18/07, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@...>
> wrote:
> > How about just "enlang" instead of "engelang"?
>
> Both "enlang" and "englang" make me think of English instead of
> engineering. I would expect something like
> en(g)lang:English::romlang:Romance.
"Enlang" suggests nothing in particular to me, but "englang" indeed
suggests English-ness to me. An englang would be a conlang derived
from English, such as a future descendent of English in a science
fiction universe.
> If "engelang" doesn't work, I suggest picking a different synonym for
> "engineered": maybe archlang, schemalang, or syslang (from
> "architected", "schematic", "system(at)ic", respectively). But I
> don't think any variation of "engelang" is going to be an improvement
> upon it. Maybe you're using the wrong half of the word. It's a
> neerlang! :)
"Lablang" has been proposed here. But the term "engelang" is
established by now.
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