Re: What to Call Non-Conlangers

>>> Sally Caves<scaves@...> 03/03/05 10:50 AM >>>
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From: "Joe" <joe@...>


> Dan Sulani wrote:
>
>>
>>    Anybody else have any ideas as to what we s>hould call
>>> those who don't create langs?
>>
>>
>> Why, Natlangers of course. The use of Natlangs is what creates them, so
>> I think it would be appropriate.
>
>Ah, but that's so dull!  We're all of us natlangers, too.  None of us DON'T
>speak a natural language.  The point was to put us in a special category,
>like the wizards, and the rest in a comic category, like the "muggles."  I
>had suggested avlangers, speakers of only average languages, and condensed
>that to "avlers" (the double "v" was a purely Teonaht slip!!), but now think
>that ordlanger (ordinary language) might be better--or "soolers" (speakers
>of only ordinary language).   :)   ???
>
>Sally
I like 'ordlangers' or 'ordlers.' I was about to reply about the 'natlanger' thing
but you beat me to it. :)

James W.