Re: Let's return to conlanging (was: Li Lingue Modern)

>I don't think it's
>any more valid to "criticize" a language for not being complete (if that
>isn't a goal of the language) than it would be to criticize a haiku for not
>being a 1000-page novel.
Actually, I think that the haiku which are most highly thought of are those
which have as much meaning packed into 3 lines as a typical 1000-page novel %^)

In my case, I just decided to get out of the language criticism business
entirely,especially in this forum.  If someone were to post their 2 month
creation on sci.lang and advocate it so as to embarrass those of us trying to
gain respect for conlangs as a field of linguistics, I am less inclined to
hold my tongue.  (Eurolang, and Glosa are two conlangs that I think are
promoted bytheir proponents far beyond what is warranted by the completeness
of the design.  But discussion at greater length of this issue probably WOULD
belong on AUXLANG or elsewhere, because we wouldn't easily stick to the topic
of completeness.  Briefly, however, Eurolang has been promoted as a complete
language ready for people to learn while the author reserves solely to himself
the right to add words to the language.  Glosa claims to be something other
than encoded English, but I have yet to see any examples posted where a Glosa
text would mean anything other than what a pidginized word-for-word English
substitution would seem to mean.  I stop there - please respond privately
if at all (since I'm not reading AUXLANG) %^).

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