Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> >What's a cursus? You seem to like the word, but it isn't in my
> >vocabulary or dictionary.
>
> Really? It must be my Dutch contaminating my English again :(( . What I
> mean is a direction of studies (i.e. Literary, Economic and Social,
> Scientific, Technical - the last one with many subdirections possible -)
The nearest North American analogues are "track" (in secondary school)
and "major" (in tertiary school).  The former, however, also implies
a judgement about students' competence (they are often known by number),
whereas the latter does not.

> Today, it has a bit changed, and
> everyone has to choose a direction at the end of Junior High, but each
> direction has more subdirections than it had in my time (the system is a
> bit like a tree, with the student as an ant which slowly walk from the
> trunk to one branch, and then another branch stemming from the first one,
> etc...).
How much of this is what you choose, and how much is what is chosen for
you, either directly or by setting cutoff points on tests?

> Mathematics (containing all the Maths subjects we studied, i.e. algebra, a
> bit of geometry, functions, with derivation and integration, limits and
> series, complex numbers and functions - but not the derivation of complex
> functions -, statistics and probabilities, and I must be forgetting a
> few),
Plane and spherical trigonometry, surely?

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