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

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 3, 1998, 6:25
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 13:13:01 +0100, Joshua Shinavier =
<jshinavi@...>
wrote:

>I've only been here since May, so I don't know what Conlang might have =
been like
>earlier, but it's true that posts dealing with the unfinished aspects of=
a
>language get a LOT more responses than those explaining grammar/vocab. =
already
>designed and done. For instance, my last (I think) post, about Gender, =
had
>some lines about "multiple realities" which I thought some people would =
find
>interesting enough to carry on a discussion about, but there were no =
responses Well, it sounds interesting, but I've been far too busy to participate = much lately.
>-- conlangers on this list seem to be more interested in the *possible* =
than
>the actual, which I think is fine; it means this is a mailing list about >*constructing* languages rather than about *already constructed* =
languages. When I first joined the list, it seemed that no one talked about constructing languages. Everyone was talking about "already constructed" languages, like Lojban and Glosa. I'd like to hear about all kinds of languages, in all stages of development, but I don't have much to say = about many of them other than my own and a few that I know something about.