Dear Christophe,
Yes, I found this too - the deadline gradually became even more extended
(one of two days... a week...) until it became meaningless. I suppose if you
are working with students you know where they are - but something as is
being envisaged consists of many people scattered all over the world. You
can't run up to their rooms and bang on their doors to remind them there's a
contribution due. At least not literally! But there seems to be a demand for
some sort of publication, doesn't there? What exactly is Latex? I thought it
was something to do with rubber. :-))
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: Offlang suggestion & counterproposal
> En réponse à Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...>:
>
> > I agree! When I was editor of Quettar (Tolkien Society's Linguistics
> > magazine) often I would have to write articles myself because so few
> > had
> > contributed. The best subscribers were the foreigners, presumably
> > because
> > the notion of a deadline is more important when you're sending
> > international
> > mail.
>
> Or because your fellow compatriots don't have an idea of what a deadline
> is :)) . With the students' newspaper I never had problems of getting
enough
> material. The problem was getting it on time! :)) . What usually happened
is
> that people sent their articles the very day of the limit, or even a day
or two
> after. I'm not rigid, so it usually was okay (the time limit was usually
one
> week before publication, so one or two days late were still okay). Here, I
> guess that if I received an article already in LaTeX even two weeks after
the
> time limit, it wouldn't be a problem since the only thing we'd have to do
is
> check the spelling and punctuation, the inclusion in the journal would be
easy.
> On the other hand, if I was to receive an article in Word at the same
time,
> don't wonder if it has to wait the next issue :)) .
>
> > By the way, love the learned Greek title!
>
> Thanks! But since I'm not fond of titles with a colon (they look SOOO
> pretentious, especially this one :)) ), I may go to a
> simpler "Glossopoiesis" :)) , unless "International Journal of Language
> Creation" gets more votes :)) .
>
> Christophe.
>
>
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>
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>