Re: A proposal to bring together the conlang communities
| From: | Amanda Babcock Furrow <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 27, 2008, 0:07 |
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On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 04:11:41PM -0500, Rick Harrison wrote:
> JPL is not defunct, it's just taking a nap.
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> 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.
Actually, I frequently wish for a hardcopy journal (with someone else
doing all the work, of course :)
Paper mail definitely feels more "real" to me these days, and it's something
I can browse while still paying attention to the toddler, a present that
arrives in the mail to brighten a rather boring stay-at-home day, something
pretty and permanent to pore over. I can get that in lacemaking magazines
(one of the advantages to a community with a very much older average age
than my own), and occasionally in a Tolkien-related publication (must go
order more), but not, of late, in general conlanging.
Actually, I was hoping this might be a direction the LCS would eventually
go in. (I joined and never got so much as an email confirmation. I'm
happy to support what is at present an organization for holding LCC's, but
I really hope there will be member benefits at some point!)
tylakèhlpë'fö,
Amanda
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