Re: Relexes Pt. 1: Defence

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:42:50 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

>Quoting J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:
>
>>     We also seem to be evolving our own technical cant ;) (i.e.
>> maggelity, ANADEWism, engelang, mangalang, etc.)
>
> I'm sometimes surprised that conlang-speak has not evolved into
> something much more cant-like; almost all the neologisms that have
> gained currency on the list denote things that have no good
> equivalent in standard English vocabularity. The continuous trickle
> of new members no doubt has something to do with it, but clearly most
> regular posters _want_ to stick to something able to pass of as Good
> Standard English, and to avoid being more opaque than necessary. Our
> hobby (/obsession) may be for the select few, but we're no
> exclusive "elite" with a private language to keep the masses out.
>
>                                                           Andreas
LOL How ironic! All these creative conlangers here and yet there's the
one obvious language we haven't come up with!

Actually, now that I think about it, there's a good reason for not
creating the conlang list private language -- it would fall into the
IAL category.

Jeff

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