Re: languages like Vorlin, Dublex & BrSc

At 3:41 pm -0400 11/5/02, Jeffrey Henning wrote:
>J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> comunu:
>
>>     I propose "paralang" as in para- , paracultural, parallel, etc.
>(and/or,
>> hehe, whimlang).
>
>"para-" can also mean "abnormal". :-(
>
>How about altlang, for "alternative language"?
But the trouble with "paralang", "whimlang" and "altlang" is that all those
designations can surely be aplied to _most_ conlangs - certainly to all
artlangs.  Certainly "paralang" and "altlang" can also designate loglangs
and auxlangs.

Many (most?) artlangs, indeed, have paracultures and/or alt-histories; so
the terms 'paralang' and 'altlang' would surely be very misleading if
restricted just to languages like Vorlin, Dublex & BrSc.

Ray.

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