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/
~§~
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_NADA BRAHMA_= < from Sanskrit > "sound is god[head]"/"god[head] is sound"
anavriti shabdat => "Liberation by sound."
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