Re: Conlang labels (wasR: Futurese, Chinese, Hz of NatLangs, etc.)

What about fictlang - the languages of a work of fiction a la JRRT's LOTR?

Of course, English being what it is, the /ktl/ cluster in the middle would
soon get ironed out to either /kl/ or /tl/

Wesley Parish

On Mon, 13 May 2002 17:30, Garrett Jones wrote:
> > And Rosta <a-rosta@...> comunu:
> > > The three poles/apices can then be defined in terms of goals:
> > >
> > > artlang: purely aesthetic design goals
> > > engelang: objective relatively quantifiable *design* goals
> > > auxlang: goal of being used as an international lingua franca
> >
> > It's obvious that engelang didn't catch on as a term -- I see
> > through Google
> > only one web site referring to it.  I've suggested a few alternatives and
> > have particularly liked any of them, but I'll try again:
> >
> > funclang -- functional language ("designed for or adapted to a particular
> > function or use")
>
> so all the suggestions so far, in my personal order from worst to best:
>
> - whimlang (sounds too whimsical)
> - funclang (this conjures up "funky lang" in my head).
> - artauxlang (too agglutinative for my taste :) )
> - engelang (for some reason, my instinct is to pronounce this /ENEleiN/
> instead of /EndZEleiN/ as the etymology would have. Plus, this name just
> reminds me of the name English, and these languages are anything *but*
> this) - paralang (someone else mentioned they use it for parallel universe
> languages)
> - altlang (reminds me of newsgroups... and also same problem as paralang)
> - experilang (this could work)
> - lablang (my personal favorite, just recently suggested)
>
> I say we put it up for vote! a poll of some sort. Maybe collect a couple
> more suggestions then do an officially sanctioned poll...
>
> btw, i would categorize Minyeva as this type of language that you all are
> talking about - regular, but not IAL, more of an idealistic type of
> grammatical system. I was thinking not too long ago that we needed a term
> for something like this...
> http://minyeva.alkaline.org
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