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Re: What to Call Non-Conlangers

From:Ivan Baines <kinetic_wab@...>
Date:Thursday, March 3, 2005, 21:09
> > Ha! I think this one's the best. First, it rhymes. Second, even > > though it would seem to technically imply that these are people > > without language, the only people who use "prefix-lang" are > > conlangers, so it seems like the "-lang" suffix implies conlanging, > > even in a word like "natlang". Yeah, my vote is for nonlanger > > (not that we're voting). > > I'd second it. Actually, I thought of it as soon as Dan asked for > suggestions, but didn't get around to saying it :). It seems a little > bit mean, but since it's clearly nonsensical as well, it's IMHO much > preferable to "avlangers", "civvies", "[mun]danes", etc etc...
Definitely gets my vote. But it doesn't necessarily imply people without language. I see it this way: there are a number of words ending in -langer, right, which describe people who engage in various related activities - e.g. conlanger, romlanger, loglanger, etc. These people could be collectively called "langers". Thus those who don't engage in such activities would quite clearly be "non-langers"! IB.

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Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>