Re: LCC2: Meeting our Community
| From: | Rick Harrison <rick@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 5:19 |
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:05:07 -0700,
Donald Boozer <donaldboozer@...> wrote:
>The LCC2 is a great way to reinforce that conlangers
>(whether they be artlangers, engelangers, auxlangers,
>etc., etc...personally, I don't know whether I agree
>with this 'Balkanization' of conlanging..but that's
>for another post)
Can we explore that? I've often thought that some of the older projects which were
published under the guise of auxlangs might look better to us if we spin them as artlangs
or engelangs. Sona, for example, tries to balance art and engineering. Babm is quirky
and convoluted with a huge vocabulary, very artlangy. If we can acknowledge the beauty
of constructed Celtic languages, why not also acknowledge the beauty of a naturalistic
Romance language such as IALA Interlingua?
But, on the other hand, it's easy to get caught up in partisan feelings, of hoping that one
conlang will prosper more than another. I think this is a manifestation of the "us against
them" bug in the human brain firmware.
And another thing... why do we write engelang instead of engilang? If it's a contraction of
"engineered" shouldn't it be engi- rather than enge-?
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Rick Harrison
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