Re: Forming questions. (In ASCII even!)
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 8, 2002, 23:07 |
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From: taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
> * Philip Newton said on 2002-01-08 20:12:54 +0100
> > > Warning: this is a very AFMCLy post
> >
> > What does that mean?
>
> "As For My ConLang", about one's own pet projects. Some people don't
> like that, but prefer more general discussion.
AFMCL, coined by yours truly, (or Matt Pearson--can't remember!)
is the one thing that makes CONLANG CONLANG. If nobody
talked about his/her own invented language, what would any of the
rest of us learn about it? If anyone thought that an AFMCL post was
_de trop_, or bragging, let them go to a linguistics list where they can
talk about ergative structures and right and left branching in
natural and invented languages to their hearts desire.
> t., who *again* thinks of *properly* starting up a *real* FAQ for the
list...
Goodie!
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teoreal.html