Re: Li Lingue Modern

>I was warned not to discuss auxlangs here but I could not help this time
>and made the mistake to ask in a previous post what neo-Latin conlang
>would most appeal to fellow conlangers speaking a Latin language for the
>only sake of curiosity. So John Petry was trying to convince me. Well, as
>we say in France : 'chassez le naturel par la porte, il revient par la
>fenetre'. I can understand that the friendly atmosphere on CONLANG makes
>AUXLANGers feel like discussing auxlangs here. I used to think that there
>may be two ways of discussing an auxlang : as works or as tool, as
>expression or as finality, as conlang or as faith. I can see now that
>finality always supersedes and prevails. Internoi interretorna a
>internostre international interagneles = accurate Interlatinguical
>translation of the French say : 'retournons a nos moutons' (hold on, I'm
>just kidding. By no means is this a critic against Ovinlinguaaaah. Let
>these shears down.)
<ramblings types="listmanager multi-year-subscriber">
It is, in principle, possible to discuss auxlangs as objects without the
problems of advocacy, but in practice it's proved very difficult both here
and on AUXLANG.

The distinction that has seemed to work is that almost all linguistic
issues are open game here (given some relevance to constructed languages or
language construction) -- except for issues relating to suitability as an
IAL. Those issues that involve value judgements on suitability as an IAL go
to AUXLANG, because they are too inflammatory, and generally lead to the
language vs. language battles that caused AUXLANG to be formed. History of
AUXLANGs also goes to AUXLANG, because there are differing versions of key
historical events in the history of several languages (especially
Esperanto) that lead to endless, acrimonious debates on who did what at the
beginning of the century.

Feel free to discuss whatever CONLANG topics you want here, but be alert to
when the discussion has shifted, and move it to AUXLANG or mail as you see
fit.

I suspect that the rules of thumb that I give above are the ones you will
end up following, only because they're the ones that have evolved over the
years that CONLANG has existed.

It seems to be an unfortunate consequence of the ironic discord that the
pursuit of international linguistic harmony seems to create.
</ramblings>

  --- David
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