Re: conlang t-shirt

Paul Bennet wrote:
>Oh, certainly.  I may have misthunk when I said "general principles".  What I
>meant was for the discussions that form maybe a half or two thirds of this
>list
>(website updates, tech, theory, tan, terminology, usage, help, most of the
>"general purpose" offs) should stay here, and the discussion of things
>specific
>to individual artlangs or artlangs in general (and associated topics, such as
>relays) could move to an artlang list.  As stated, I'd still read and post in
>both, but the distinction is probably useful.
My gut reaction is that this would cripple growth of the community. New (or
newly online) conlangers are going to find the CONLANG list first, and I
think it is precisely the discussion of artlangs here that attracts so many
of us to this list. To take away from the word "conlang", in the souls of
netizens, the associations of exactly the atmosphere we have here, I think,
would be a bad thing, and putting all the techs/theory/tangent stuff in the
most prominent list would cause more problems than it creates.

sam "I hate change" bryant



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