Re: Linguistic copyright (RE: this is what I got in the mail.)

Andreas Johansson wrote at 2003-03-17 21:44:44 (+0100)
 >
 > There's been endless and not always civil discussions on the
 > copyrightability of invented languages on the various Tolkienian
 > Linguistics mailing lists (eg elfling and tolklang). Alot of
 > standpoints has been very eloquently (or not) argued. I'd VERY MUCH
 > appreciate if we did not discuss such things on CONLANG.
 >

I have no particular interest in the matter myself, and if people
don't want to discuss it, then by all means let it not be discussed.
But it would seem to be on topic, which is more than can be said of a
lot of threads on this list, and if would be unfortunate to discourage
people from discussing it if they were interested.  In any case, it
looks to me as if the discussion is winding up naturally;  no need to
poke at it.

(My apologies if there's anything off about the paragraph above.  I
have water in my ear, and I think it's throwing my prose off balance.)