Re: Con-prescriptivism

On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:

> The recent flameskirmish (I don't think it's quite a *war*, more like a
> brief skirmish) around prescriptivism, etc., as well as a joking remark
> by someone about having a "haughty" register in conlangs got me to
> thinking about conprescriptivism.  I seem to remember that Elet Anta has
> a fictional language academy, but does anyone else have one?
*chuckles*  I cannot even imagine trying to explain the idea to an 'At'a.
He'd consider it as strange as a "running school," or a "governer of
eating".