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

En réponse à Maarten van Beek <dungeonmaster@...>:

>
> I find it a bit amusing to think that one can keep track of who gets
> one's
> document when sending it over the internet. If the jounral is any good,
> it
> will be forwarded by people to other people, others may publish it on
> their
> websites, people using search engines may download tons of old issues
> without you ever knowing etc. There is no way you can ever keep track of
> how
> many people eventually get your journal. You might get an idea how
> many
> people will get it first hand, but this is no indication of how many
> people
> actually read it.
>
But I never said I wanted to keep track of every one who had the journal in
his/her hands :)) . I just want to have a list of people who read it since not
all of them might be on the Conlang list and I might need to contact them (if
only because they may want to write articles too - I'll add a call for articles
in each issue of the journal -).

> But as was said before, Christophe makes the journal, so he decides. But
> if
> he won't even make the effort of putting it on a website so I can
> download
> it on my own time, well... maybe it's just not worth reading it then?
>
Well, if you measure the worth of things on whether or not they are put on a
website, then I can do nothing for you, and indeed it's then much better that
you don't read the conlang journal...

> Maarten (knowing that he is on the verge of pissing his friend Chrisophe
> off
> majorly ;-) )
>
Hehe, it's not by you that I am pissed off, but by that spoon-feed attitude:
everything has to come to you when one wants it, the way one wants it and
without one doing anything for it, or one won't even bother take a look at it.
Well, I resent this attitude, and I know one thing and that's that condoning it
is not a solution. So I won't do anything that may help people to stay with
this practice. And I still think that stating once for your all life that you
want to receive the journal is not that difficult, and that even if you can't
read it at the moment you receive it you'll be able to read it later. As I
said, I want to make this journal feel like a real journal, not like a web
publication. I hate those, so I'm not gonna start one of them.

Of course, you're allowed to have your own opinion, I even encourage you to
have it in those times when people receive death threats or even get shot for
having an opinion (and I'm not only talking about Fortuyn). But I've not seen
any argument that could prove my opinion to be any worse than any other, and
thus don't feel like changing it. And since I'm in charge of the Conlang
journal, it will be done in a way that feels right for me. If I am to do
something that I find wrong in some way or another, I won't have enough
motivation to fulfill it correctly. And you can guess that centralising all the
work for the Conlang journal is quite a lot of work, so you can understand why
I need to do it in my way.

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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