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Re: conculture issues [cross-posted]

From:Tony Harris <tony.harris@...>
Date:Thursday, February 18, 1999, 14:17
> (a lot of interesting comments about conculture postings on conlang)
I have recently subscribed to the World-Building list and I definitely feel like it isn't the forum for the kind of conlang-heavy conculture discussions that we're talking about here. While the list itself can have some interesting stuff, I do agree with the comment that it can get *very* detail oriented, such as the recent multi-message thread about the process of horse domestication in North America and how that would/should/could influence specific elements of a hypothetical culture. Quite interesting in its own right, but a lot of bandwidth for those of us who aren't really into that level of detail. Likewise, I have found that CONLANG itself can be heavy on the linguistics side, and I also feel less comfortable about conculture postings unless there is a heavy linguistic element connected to the culture item. This is *NOT* a problem or fault in CONLANG, any more than what I mention above is a problem of fault in World-Building, just a logical development of the focus of each list. As I mentioned, I would be interested in a CONCULTURE-L list. I tried joining the one at onelist.com, and I thought I had, but I got a bounce a day or so later saying no such list existed. At the time, I just left the subject alone since I was checking out World-Building anyway. Having since decided it's not quite my cup of tea (so to speak) I would again be interested in conculture, if we're sure it's up and running. Could someone (Kristian?) repost the instructions and I'll give it another shot? Tony Harris Community College of Vermont tony.harris@ccvtest.ccv.vsc.edu