Re: LUNATIC again

On Sat, 7 Nov 1998 13:31:03 -0500, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:

>I have made myself unclear by mixing my terms up.  I'm sorry.  I really
>prefer to see "conlang" as a term that can be further divided into
>artlangs and auxlangs.  I believe that that was the original sense in
>which it was used.  What I do is make a model language, a *fictional*
>language as you suggest below.  You are doing something else.  All of us
>are "conlanging."  The term "conlang," however, has acquired the meaning
>at least on this listserv of one of its subsets, "artlang."  From now on
>I'll use "artlang" to mean what I do to distinguish what you do.  Except
>that Lojban is not really an auxiliary language.  I forgot.  A third
>category is needed.  But whatever that is, it's not exactly a
>ficlang/artlang or what have you.
"Experimental language" is what I call languages of that sort, although I
don't know how it ought to be abbreviated (exlang? explang?). But in my
usage, I'd include all of these under the overall category of conlangs.