CHAT: 10-year anniversary (was Re: CHAT: Re: More enter-bringings)

On 4 Mar 00, at 2:25, taliesin the storyteller wrote:

> To sum it up, nothing special but it sure beats tv...
:-)))

> t. (when *is* the the 10-year anniversary and should we cook up
> something to properly celebrate it?)
If we've long enough to arrange something, I think it'd be cool to try and
get as many current (and any willing past) listmembers under one roof as
possible for a Megaconlangcon (or would it be a Conlangmegacon? ;-)

Also, *if* we can get something going without it turning into 'war of the
auxlangers' again, I'd suggest that the Conlang t-shirt could be (part of)
a suitable memento.

Possibly, whoever decides to run it this time (Fabian was the original
host, but I believe at least one other person expressed an interest) could
run a private ballot by off-list email to determine which conlangs not
designed by current listmembers ought to be included.  The final result
would be final, binding and non-negotiable (and preferably not discussable
on-list :-), based on the top quartile of votes received (or some similar
pre-determined purely statistical method).

Another suggestion might be a set of (light-hearted) awards for conlangs in
categories such as "most longwinded", "least pronounceable", "least
readable romanisation", "least likely to succeed as an auxlang", "best
website", "most unusual phoneme" and so forth... :-)


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Pb