Re: Offlang suggestion & counterproposal

Thank you, Christophe, for your elaborate answer. It's
a pity of half an hour's work, but the message got
through well enough, I think.

> Basically, I said that I agreed the basic arguments
> against an official club, except that I found Jan
> being more frightened by the word itself than by the
> thing, since what he proposed was basically the
> activities of a club ...
No, I meant to say that those activities can be
performed as well without a club, so why bother?

> But my main reaction was on the idea of a conlang
> monthly. I found the idea basically good, but
> thought it would be nicer as a conlang journal ...
> I saw more a trimestrial publication (with a special
> one for Conlang Day :)) ) with a limit for sending
> articles of one month before publication (to allow
> enough time to actually make this journal and
> correct all problems that would occur).
That's what I meant, actually. IMO the frequency could
well depend on the number of people who will send
copy.

> an "International Journal of Language Construction,
Sounds attractive, though ;)

<snip a lot of wonderful constructive text that
deserves better>

I agree with everything you write, and I'm glad your
answer is both very constructive and very practical.
With this approach, we could actually make this thing
work.

> Of course, this is just a proposal, but I volunteer
> for receiving the articles and make them into one
> journal. If I receive enough positive reactions, I
> think we could make the first issue for Conlang Day
> (which is? I never remember it... 10th July?).
A great proposal, I think. You are definitely the
right person to do this, since you seem to know almost
everybody around and know a lot about web things as
well. I would really like to be of assistence, but my
knowledge on both fields is rather limited...

> Christophe.
Kind regards,
Jan

> Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else
> play the leading role.
What's more beautiful than doing so?

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wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that
happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great
comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." --- J.
Michael Straczynski

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