Re: What to Call Non-Conlangers

Dan Sulani <Dansulani@...> wrote:
>     I couldn't come up with an acceptable (to me,
> at any rate) term for the collective non-us.
> "Non-conlanger" doesn't really do it for me.
> So I borrowed a leaf from Harry Potter and called
> them "muggles". But that's not it either. (And besides,
> that would imply that we conlangers are all wizards
> and witches! Well, language-wizards, maybe. ;-)
> But still...!  )
>    Sally thought that we might refer to them as
>  "avlangers" or  "Avvles?  (i.e., average users of language)"
>     Anybody else have any ideas as to what we should call
> those who don't create langs?
Heh, I like the idea of "conlangers" vs "nonlangers", technically inaccurate
though it may be.

But if conlangers deal with conlangs, those who only deal with natlangs would
presumably be called natlangers. :)


	*Muke!
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