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

From:Garrett Jones <alkaline@...>
Date:Monday, May 13, 2002, 5:31
> > 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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