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

Benct Philip Jonsson schrieb:
> On 2009-01-20 Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>> 'to fiddle about with conlangs without ever
>> achieving a satisfactory result'
>
> Isn't that what most conlangers usually do?
> Tolkien certainly did, and I do: ever fiddling,
> never satisfied -- not for long anyway!
No, I think what Jörg and Philip meant is that the _-eln_ suffix adds a
rather derogatory connotation here.  And I share their rejection of the
term. It sounds like dilettantism.

I think someone at the Kunstsprachen list suggested to use 'kuspern' as
an equivalent to 'to conlang'. However I'd be more inclined to use a
more common phrasing there instead of a neologism, so I'd rather say
"Sprachen erfinden", or when you want to say 'I have been conlanging'
you could say "Ich habe an meiner (Kunst-)Sprache gearbeitet".

Viele Grüße
Carsten

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