Re: New to the list

> > >What I'm saying is: I have no interest in the politics on AUXLANG. I'm a
> > >conlanger with particular interest in the design of IALs, with no concern
> > >for their actual use at all. I don't propagate. Therefore, I'm coming to
> > >this list. I want to kindly ask permission to post some of my design ideas
> > >here, even though they are about IALs. Their real nature is much
> > >rather "conlangish" or even "artlangish". Would that be okay?
I for one (and at least one other Conlanger too) share this sentiment
fully.  It is only so that early in the history of Conlang list (pre
Auxlang list) it was swamped with the IAL ideological (or religious!) wars,
so Conlangers *are* wary of the very words auxlang and IAL -- even we who
are interested in auxlang design!  OTOH enough attempts to discuss formal
issues of auxlangs on Auxlang were never successful!

> >As long as it is about grammar, semantics, phonetics, morphology, etc...
> >you can discuss about any language (even natlangs) without restriction, as
> >long as you don't want to impose the ideology of an IAL. Some here even
> >have IAL projects, but when they discuss them here it's only the linguistic
> >features that are discussed, not whether they are better than others for
> >international communication.
Yes.  Moreover beauty and efficiency of languages are very much in the eye
of the beholder, but the Conlang crowd, unlike the Auxlang crowd, are good
at agreeing to disagree -- even on the occasions when we swerve out into
discussions of religion.  (You will find that we often swerve out into
dis'n'dat.  Apparently because Conlangers tend to share interests outside
conlanging too!  The only thing never discussed is politics, AFAIK.  That
is probably just as well! :-)

[kut]

> >So you're more than welcome to discuss your IALs here, as long as it is
> >about linguistic and artistic features, not about ideology :) .
> >
> >Welcome!
>
>Thank you very much. My interests in auxlangs or conlangs don't go much
>beyound phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, etc, so you won't have
>to fear anything like that coming from me. If you'd take a look at what I've
>written on auxlang in the archives (please don't - auxlang archives aren't
>nice to go through ;)), you'd see very little politics, propagation, or
>fanaticism. I see auxlangs just as conlangs, where the setting I give for
>myself is a hypothetical Earth 2000-something where an IAL has been adopted;
>what should that IAL be like?
I like that idea!  Alternate timelines is another favorite Conlang
pastime.  Go to egroups.com and check out what I wrote in Conlang message
39801.  Chances are you will enjoy that alternate timeline! ;-)

>Oskar
/Beppi


/BP

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