Re: Discuss the features?

>I was here when the thread on Futurese began. At the time, I believed
>it wouldn't wander off ("discuss the features", or so was written),
>but having read samples of sarcasm and not-so-polite statements and
>questions (which remind me of the pages either criticizing or defending
>some IALs), I fear I'm (we are) experiencing what once lead to the
>creation of the AUXLANG list:
>
> "You're wrong!"
> "May I know why?"
> "Yes, Your Highness..."
>
>I know I can always unsubscribe. But I won't.
>
>I know I could just ignore the lines/messages that make me feel
>discontent/unhappy/sorrow/sad/down (I can't find the right word;
>perhaps I should coin one? :) and simply delete them. The point is
>that it bothers me to know that such a discussion is going on here.
>
>I wonder if the thread on Futurese wouldn't be more suitable for the
>AUXLANG list... Or is it [still] within bearable/tolerable limits?
>I must stress that I am NOT in any way against Futurese. I just
>wouldn't like quarrels to arise -- at least not like the ones
>I've read about.
>
>I've been reading material and visiting sites concerning conlanging
>and became aware of the perils of discussing IALs... or could it be
>that I'm too much affraid [for nothing]? I've never taken part in
>such heated discussions (not that I'm willing to), but I believe
>they don't ever take us anywhere.
So do I; I DO HATE flame wars and that's why I explicitly
said "Regard it just as a conlang". But several people
here have explicitly said they like to start flame wars and
so they started to make irrelevant questions (I mean,
irrelevant to what I said I was here to discuss: the
features of the language, not politics) like "How do you
plan to introduce the language?" and the like. So I think
it wasn't that unjustified that I got annoyed.

I thought that saying "It is intended as an IAL" was
necessary for you to know what kind of requirements the
design of the language should meet, but know I feel it
would have been much better that I had simply said "Hey,
please have a look at this conlang project and tell me
what you think about it".

Javier.