Re: LCC2: Meeting our Community
| From: | T. A. McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 5:35 |
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Rick Harrison wrote:
> 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?
You are allowed to discuss the beauty of a naturalistic Romance language
on this list regardless of whether it's an auxlang or an artlang. What
you are not allowed to do is say that Interlingua > Esperanto as an auxlang.
...
> 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-?
AFAIK, it's because it's pronounced /endZl&N/ i.e. as two syllables, and
-ge- is one way to spell of soft g (cf. also vegetable /vedZt@b@l/), but
-gi- isn't.
--
Tristan.
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