Re: conlang t-shirt

> Date:         Fri, 5 Nov 1999 04:41:12 -0800
> From: Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>
> ira@rempt.xs4all.nl writes:
> >Finding out that the list had split, and that the artlangers and
> >auxlangers each had a place to do their own thing without annoying
> >the other bunch, was very heartening. I don't want the same hostile
> >attitude to rear its ugly head again here - I don't think I'm in any
> >danger of stopping conlanging now, but I like to have an outlet with
> >constructive feedback and without worries.
>=20
> I for one would not like to see a list split. I'm sure the suxlang/conlang
> split was for the good of everyone though. I noticed that most of the
> auxlangers stick to that list and don't come here. One thing I noticed
> about auxlang, is a lot of people post in auxlangs, and I don't have the
> time to learn them to translate =3D).
Well, I think I can speak with authority as to what the original idea
of the split was.

Artistry, science, and engineering were to belong here. Politics to go
on AUXLANG.

Lojban and Glosa are constructed languages as well as any other, and
their merits as languages --- their beauty in sound or orthography,
their similarity to natural human languages, even their usability or
learnability --- are subjects fit for discussion here. Their purpose
in being is irrelevant for this, and should not count against them.
Only their fitness as IALs is the sole domain of AUXLANG.

And by the way, who can say that less artistry went into the creation
of Volap=FCk or Esperanto than Sindarin?

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marke=
d)