Language Creation: The International Language Construction Bulletin (working title)

I've been on vacation, so I'm sortof hopping into the middle here,
but...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christophe Grandsire [mailto:christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR]
> Sent: Thursday, 2002 May 02 02:55
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: [CONLANG] Language Creation: The International
> Language Construction Bulletin (working title :)) )
> I'll work on a webpage, but I can't make sure that it will be
> ready for the first issue.
Depending on what kind of webpage you're wanting, I can probably assist
with this, and probably provide space for a mirror, if needed.

> As for the format of the submissions, I can now accept the
> following formats, in decreasing order of desireability:
> LaTeX, RTF, Word, WP and HTML (for the last two, the
Plain Text, perhaps?  Since the only formatting you'll be keeping of the
submissions is essentially paragraph breaks, I'm assuming plain text
submissions would be fairly easy to convert as well. :)

> want to make it? Also, I think Irina's idea of having for
> each issue the title "Language Creation" translated in a
> conlang (in native script :) ),
Excellent Idea.

> So it's pretty much all I had to say about the Conlang
> Journal... No! I forgot! What do you think of the title?
> (bearing in mind that the first part "Language Creation" will
> always be in a conlang) Do you find it OK, or do you have a
> better idea?
I'm not sure I have a better idea, but when I was speed-skimming
thread-subjects (I'm woefully behind on reading the list, so I
mass-delete on the basis of subject), because of extra spaces in the
message subject, what I actually saw was: "International Language
Construction" and nearly deleted the thread because I initially thought
it was about constructing a new inter-language.  I don't have anything
against them, I'm just not interested in the subject, as it were (having
2023 messages in my conlang folder might have something to do with that.
;)

"The International Language             Construction
Bulletin (working title :)) )"

Unfortunately, I don't know of a good title that captures the elements
(e.g. language creation, international, etc.) without giving that false
impression.

Of course, it could be I'm the only one misguided enough to mistake
"International Language Construction" for inter-language construction.
;)

Iain

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