Re: Question on conlang history

--- Paul Bennett skrzypszy:

> The short: [...]
Thanks for the explanation.

> CONLANG went on to spawn a number of children, largely for the discussion
> of conlangs derived from specific known real-world language stocks, which
> is IMO a shame, but it does keep the list traffic down below the 100-
> posts-per-day threshold.
Personally, I don't think it is a shame. These groups allow for a more in-
depth discussion and most of them contain a good deal of know-how. BTW I
agree with your qualification as "child lists", because that's exactly what
they are: not concurrents in any way, but merely additions to conlang. If
you are afraid to miss anything interesting because you are not in the
workshops, there is no harm at all in joining them; their volume rarely
exceeds five messages a day.

> What're the names and sign-up addresses of the various child-lists that
> are open to the public?
The subgroups of the type you described above (a posteriori conlangs that
belong to a specific family):

- Celticonlang
- Romconlang (successor of Romanceconlang, a group
  we abandoned recently because of the spammers)
- Germaniconlang
- Slaviconlang
- Uraliconlang
- Eastasianconlangs
- Westasianconlangs
- Amerindconlangs

All these are Yahoo! groups. Their homepages can be accessed by:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/[groupname]

If you want to join them straighty away, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/[groupname]/join

or send an empty message to:
[groupname]-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

(in the former case you'll need a Yahoo-id. However, this page allow you to
adjust some settings straight away, for example HTML/no HTML,
mail/nomail/digest, etc.)

Jan

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