Re: CHAT: The profile of a conlanger

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Ed Heil wrote:

>OOH!  There's an idea.  What kind of conlanger would each of the
>sixteen character types typically be?
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>Here's a beginning -- starting from the four basic types:
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>NT (Architects): Creates an amazingly elegant but possibly completely
>unusable loglang.  Designs _a priori_ vocabulary according to elegant
>and abstruse rules.  Typical conlangs: Lojban, Allnoun, Rick Morneau's
>stuff?.
Oo, thanks a bloody lot.  This inventory listed me as Architect; and I
suppose there's a little of that in me, because I know I could a
damned sight better than those horrible glass and steel boxes they're
always comming up with. :)  Anyway, as much as I don't hold with
glass-n-brass buildings; I really can't abide loglangs.

>SP (Artists/Performers): Create an aesthetically gorgeous language
>which they improvise as they go along.  Typical conlangs: Quenya &
>Sindarin, Teonaht, Denden, many others used by people active on the
>list.
Other inventories taken at school have listed me here.  I'm not so
sure my conlangs are particularly pleasing aesthetically, but I do
improvise a bit as I go along.

Padraic.

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