Re: Question on conlang history

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:24:50 -0800, Clint Jackson BAKER <litrex2@...>
wrote:

> Please inform me on the history of The Great Schism.  I really don't know
> anything.  It would be interesting.
It has been fairly well discussed today, and by people who were there at
the time.

The short:

Once, long ago, before the gods who made the gods were born, there came a
list: CONLANG, for the discussion of constructed languages.

It became apparent that the list membership consisted of two groups of
people, those who felt that auxlangs in general (and their pet project in
particular) were the cure to most of society's ills, and those who were
just in it for the sheer fun.

Thus, CONLANG begat AUXLANG, the latter for the discussion and advocacy of
various Auxlangs, with Artlangers and other less dogmatic types (including
the more casual of the Loglangers) remaining in CONLANG.

That's about the crux of the biscuit, as far as I know. I suspect there are
anecdotes of the times surrounding the split, from the survivors, which may
be entertaining and/or educational, but I haven't really heard any.

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.

Two questions:

Is the threshold still in place?

What're the names and sign-up addresses of the various child-lists that are
open to the public?





Paul

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