Re: how many conlangs do you know?

From: "H. S. Teoh"

> I'm just curious... how many conlangs do people know here on average,
> besides their own?
>
> I'm been looking over some conlangs and I find that it takes quite a while
> to learn a conlang. Maybe I'm just slow... but I wonder how familiar
> people are with conlangs that aren't their own.
An attempt to ameliorate this situation is:

Conlangs_in_use@egroups.com

And then, define "know", and "familiar". It takes a while to learn *any*
lang, but the effort of that list is to promote someone learning your lang
in exchange for which you learn someone else's lang. Many of the obstacles
that the Gray Wizard highlights still exist, of course, but the fact that
someone may actually be studying your lang spurs one on to greater heights.
Too, while I may not be anywhere near fluency in any of the conlangs, I do
keep a close eye on the longer-term projects which I find interesting. As a
result, I have a passive knowledge of such langs as Tokana and Teonath
inasmuch as I have a passive knowledge of Portuguese. For me, if you learn a
lang, you at least want to be able to read something substantial after the
effort, and most conlangs don't get you beyond the Tower of Babel, or a
couple of apocryphal tales. Nice, but hardly a major incentive (Elet Anta
seems to have a hefty selection). Géarthnuns, once it gets online, hopes to
emulate Elet Anta by providing a decent range of reading selections so that
those who might learn the lang have some texts to work with.

Kou