Re: New to the list

At 11:32 15/06/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear list-members of Conlang,
>
>My name is Oskar Gudlaugsson and I'm 20 years old from Iceland. I'm a
>polyglott and linguistics-enthusiast who uses conlanging for personal
>expression. Sound familiar?
>
Quite! Welcome to the list from a 24-year-old French
polyglot-would-like-to-be :) and linguistics-enthusiast who uses conlanging
for personal expression (at least that's what Mathias Lassailly says on his
webpage :) ).

>Anyway, subscribers to AUXLANG would be familiar with me, as I've been on
>that list for a month or so. However, I just decided to leave it, as I'm
>sick of the pointless bickering there about personal matters or the utterly
>uninteresting history of the IAL-movement. Not enough useful discussion
>going on there.
>
I never even took a look at AUXLANG in fact. All that was said about it
here made me sick before I even tried to see :) .

>I'm well aware that discussions on auxlangs are not allowed on this list.
>However, I recently realized that my ideas should be posted on this list
>instead of the other, as I'm only really interested in the design of
>auxlangs per se; I don't care about the auxlang-movement or the teaching of
>those languages ("propagating" is what they call it). The last time I
>presented my ideas the only comments I got were "How will you propagate
>this language?".
>
That's quite what I've heard about the AUXLANG-list. Doesn't sound nice to
me. Welcome here, to a place where no fanatism takes place. You enter here
in a nice group of warm people ready to hear from any point of view about
nearly anything (often our conversations drift quite far from conlanging,
we have a tag CHAT: for that) and who never try to impose their ideology
(in the broad sense) on you. Of course, there are sometimes a few frictions
between people, but that's quite like in all families, and everything is
forgotten soon.

>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?
>
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. I myself am an Esperantophone, but it only
comes from my personal taste of beauty. I find Esperanto beautiful and
that's the main reason why I learned it. But I would never ever post
anything about the superiority of Esperanto over other IALs (I hardly know
any other, so who am I to judge things I don't know?).

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!

                                                Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

"Reality is just another point of view."

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