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.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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