Re: A proposal to bring together the conlang communities

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:50:14PM +0100, Carsten Becker wrote:

> http://r0ry.co.uk/zbbgroup.php proves that it's not
> completely as anonymous as it seems,
Oh, and now I see that there is a ZBB census on KneeQuickie.  That's
cool.

> part of the ZBB consists of Americans (generic term), but
> there also a lot of British people, quite a few Swedes, some
> Australians/New Zealanders, some Finns, some French and a
> couple of Germans ... the most exotic places (I'd say) we
> have each a member from are Iceland and Java.
Hmm.  I wonder why it's not as obvious over there?  Maybe because the
short-and-quick communication style doesn't lend itself to digressions
like YA*PTs and ancestry?  Or maybe I just haven't hung around there
long enough at any one time to notice.

> So in conclusion I think it's really just a different style
> of communication, but not inferior to mailinglists. Besides,
> who says one can't sign up here with a pseudonym or a random
> nickname as well? In fact, people have done that in the
> past.
True, but I think it makes a big difference whether it is the accepted
and normal style in a particular communications medium.  Pseudonyms
are the exception here (though not entirely frowned upon unless they
fail to mesh in other ways as well), and real names are the exception
there.

tylakèhlpë'fö,
Amanda