Re: A proposal to bring together the conlang communities
| From: | Rick Harrison <rick@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 26, 2008, 21:12 |
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:41:19 -0500, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
>Also the Journal of Planned Languages (Rick Harrison)
>and the Journal of Unnecessary Languages (Steve Brewer),
>also defunct.
JPL is not defunct, it's just taking a nap.
The invention of the WWW took a bite out of the need for a hardcopy journal. Language
inventors can write their own lang descriptions now and update them 100 times a day if
they want. That's considerably more attractive to many people than getting fossilized in a
hardcopy publication.
As for Sai's proposal, I echo the concerns of others who said we might be too
heterogenous to get smooshed together like that. Also decentralized fora are less
vulnerable to natural disaster, hacker attack, etc.
It's not as if we were really separated. We can look in on the other fora whenever we
want (assuming they are in a language that we can read).
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