Re: Language Creation: The International Language Construction Bulletin (working title)
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 2, 2002, 14:17 |
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--- Irina wrote:
> How about "(The) International Bulletin of Language Construction"? It's
> a bit more pretentious with the article, and I don't know whether
> pretentiousness is a good thing (in my opinion it's not, but YMMV).
It is a bit pretentious, indeed, with or without the article. But that effect
is at least partly undone by translating it into a conlang.
Many conlangs (including mine) don't have an article, anyway.
Jan
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