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

 --- Jan van Steenbergen wrote (in spite of his knowledge that it is a bad habit
to reply to your own posts):

> --- Christophe wrote:
>
> > Maybe: "an International Bulletin for Language Construction"? (I don't know
> > why, but I feel that "for" fits better than "of" here...)
>
> This, I think, should be left to the idiom of the conlang in question.
> In my language, it would definitely be "for", because "of" just wouldn't
> sound right.
>
> > And what is better: "journal" or "bulletin"? I have the feeling that "journal"
> > is more pretentious than "bulletin". Am I right?
>
> I doubt whether the average conlang makes the difference :)
But now I realize that that was not an answer to the question. Next try:
Yes, you are right; "Journal" sounds more pretensious than "bulletin", at least
to me. Now the next question: is there something wrong with that?

"International Bulletin for Language Creation" sound alright to me.

Jan


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