Re: A proposal to bring together the conlang communities
| From: | Rick Harrison <rick@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 27, 2008, 1:11 |
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:20:24 -0800, Sai Emrys <sai@...> wrote:
>Hardcopy journals have a remarkably more "real" feeling to them. And
>fewer, 'fossilized' publications have the advantage of having a
>broader and larger audience than any individual's website.
Oh, I'm in favor of hardcopy as much as anyone. If my favorite langs, Sona and
Interglossa and Speedwords for example, had not been published in books, but rather in
some 20th century equivalent of web pages, I likely never would have discovered them.
Web pages tend to disappear after their authors lose interest or die. Hardcopy has more
permanence.
Also, I believe people pay more attention to hardcopy. It's just a guess but I believe on
average long articles get absorbed better in printed form. Stuff on the computer screen
doesn't seem to penetrate the brain as deeply. Purely a subjective feeling, though. Don't
have any research to back me up.
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