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

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Monday, May 13, 2002, 6:58
In a message dated 05/12/2002 05.27.27 AM, Jeffrey@HENNING.COM writes:

>I like your [Raymond Brown's] idea (in another post) of calling these
"experimental
>languages". <SNiP> I think the openmindedness of "experilangs" clearly
separates >them from the partisan politics of auxlangs. Okay, I sotrt of like this ExperiLang classification... Too bad _Gedankenexperiment-Lang_ would be way too long and kludgey-er than ExperiLang. ::trying out other possible neologisms with various technoscience roots for "try":: ProbeLang... PeiraLang...ExploraLang... TentaLang...TestLang... ::gives up:: ExperiLang will do... In a message dated 05/12/2002 06.09.57 AM, butsuri@BTOPENWORLD.COM writes:
>For example, an experimental language could easily be an >experiment in logicalness, or ideological qualities.
Broad category: ExperiLang... various subspecies ;) like LogLangs and IdeoLangs.... perhaps? In a message dated 05/12/2002 10.33.23 AM, a-rosta@ALPHAPHE.COM writes:
>I think the Gnoli triangle would be better if 'loglang' were replaced >by 'engelang'
"EngeLang"? Sounds like {a} pidgin English to me... Why not "EngiLang"? Or ModiLang [Modified Lang]? or RodLang (as in "hot rod" ;) ? Or even "TronLang" (_tron_ Greek "tool")?
>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 > >Engelangs can be broken up into further dimensions, according to >the specific design goals -- logicality, nonambiguity, brevity, >learnability, smallness, etc. etc.
Good idea. In a message dated 05/12/2002 06.11.31 PM, Jeffrey@HENNING.COM writes:
>funclang -- functional language ("designed for or adapted to a particular >function or use")
LOL funci... FunctiLang! And it has _fun_ in it ;) In a message dated 05/12/2002 09.57.01 AM, matrix14@COMCAST.NET writes:
>BTW again. When I just typed 'level', I originally typed it as >'lever'. This is what you silly conlang people do to me: a few years >ago, I would have never mixed up my liquids like that!
*SNaRrFLe!* & *gigloctet* "Resistance is futile. You _will_ be assimilated." ;) Hanuman Zhang {HANoomaan JAHng} /'hanuma~n dZahN/ ~§~ Sometimes the difference between noise and music is all in your head "I like the fact that listen is an anagram of silent." ~ Alfred Brendel _NADA BRAHMA_= < from Sanskrit > "sound is god[head]"/"god[head] is sound" anavriti shabdat => "Liberation by sound." OM ... Om Tat Sat... Tat Tvam Asi... OM