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

Ray:
> >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
>
> Yes, I like that.  It keeps things simple.  Tim May has rightly pointed out
> the pitfalls of a quadrilateral model.  You're redefining the Gnoli
> triangle is neater.  I suppose we must now call it the Gnoli-Rosta triangle
> :)
But since I already claim the honour of having named the Gnoli triangle,
I do not wish desuetude upon that name!

> >Engelangs can be broken up into further dimensions, according to
> >the specific design goals -- logicality, nonambiguity, brevity,
> >learnability, smallness, etc. etc.
>
> I think conlangs with an 'ideological' goal like Laadan would fit here also.
Indeed.

> At 8:24 pm +0100 12/5/02, And Rosta wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >Claudio Gnoli, librarian by profession, conlanger and zoologist by
> >calling, inventer of Liva (findable by googling), still around in
> >the land of the living but not on Conlang.
>
> ..which IMO is a loss to Conlang.
Not least because Claudio acted as a bibliographer, cataloguer and
tazonomist of conlanging, and his absence leaves lots of wheels to
be reinvented by those who came after him.

--And.