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Re: Fictional auxlangs as artlangs (was Re: Poll)

From:Lars Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Monday, December 15, 2008, 17:44
2008/12/15 R A Brown <ray@...>

> I remember several years back some auxlanger asked on *this* list for our > top three (or was 10?) conlang candidates to serve as a global auxlang. The > request annoyed me, as I thought it inappropriate for this list, and made > sure none of my candidates were any of those that had actually been designed > by their authors as auxlangs. IIRC my top three were: Quenya, Tepa, Kinya > :) >
Well, what was the poor person to do? Asking on auxlang would get him a useless set of lists, no two alike and none surprising, of one language each. But yes, even asking for personal favourites among IALs is begging for advocacy, and should be avoided on this list. You may consider that definitory. -- Lars