Re: "Conlang" and "Artlang" in German (was ... in Swedish)

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 21:20, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:11:09 +0100, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>
>> What about _Kunstsprachler_?  Surely the verb 'to conlang'
>> must be _kunstspracheln_ in German, and even if it isn't
>> there is _Wissenschaftler_ in spite of there being no
>> verb _*Wissenschafteln_.
>
> _Kunstspracheln_???  BAAAH!  What an ugly word!  To me, it
> sounds like 'to fiddle about with conlangs without ever
> achieving a satisfactory result'.
Similarly here. I think the -eln suffix is felt primarily as an
iterative one in such a word.

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>