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

>
> 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

--
Garrett Jones
http://www.alkaline.org

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