Re: OT: Whatever

* Jeffrey Jones said on 2007-12-21 19:29:44 +0100
> I figure I might as well stop reading here too.
Why the "too"?

> Let's face it: I'm here mainly in the hopes of a discussion of
> whichever conlang I happen to be working on, although I enjoy
> seeing discussions of other interesting* conlangs, and even
> natlangs, provided it's not about phonetics and phonemes.
YA*PTs are the reason any good mail-program has the function
"mark thread as read", or in my case, using procmail to mark 'em
as read before they reach my "Conlang"-box.

Now, a reason YA*PT and other phone*ic threads grow so much is
of course the bikeshed-problem: it's IMHO the easiest part of
language, making it easy for people to participate.

> The problem is that my conlang has reached the point where
> anybody who wants to discuss it has to study quite a lot of
> non-standard poorly organized material first. Very few are
> both able and willing to do that, especially considering that
> probably not many find my particular kind of conlanging
> worthwhile.
A handful no doubt do find it worthwhile. That doesn't mean that
they have anything better to answer your posts with "neat" or
"AOL" or "good idea" though. Since such posts are better off
unsent, there are few to no replies.

> So, the benefits to me are limited. On the minus side,
> sometimes issues come up that I suspect most people don't
> notice, but I find very distressing, even if I don't mention
> it.
Now you made me curious. If it isn't "no cross, no crown, no
green star", could we discuss it offlist?

> That's it I guess, except that I'd better say that I'm not
> trying to impose my own tastes on others. I'm sure this post
> could be much better written -- but only if someone else wrote
> it.
Sounds like CONLANG-L burnout. I have'em about 14 months apart
but then I get better...


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