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

Garrett Jones wrote:
>
> >
> > 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...
>
Of those, definitely "lablang".

                                       Andreas

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