>From: Kala Tunu <kalatunu@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Re Barry Garcia
>Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 21:58:02 +0100
>
>Muke Tever <alrivera@...> wrote:
>
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>This is one reason why making an effective auxlang is not a
>simple task and can
>easily be underestimated. Especially in forums like these,
>the chicken that
>believes it can fly like an eagle will soon be escorted to
>the dinner table.
>
>(I won't say anything more about auxlangs qua auxlangs
>here.)
>
>Now, if you can, you can join the CONLANG list at this page:
>
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=conlang
>&A=1
>
>and show us your language and its features *as they are, by
>themselves*, but
>(and this is the important part) CONLANG [1] is not a place
>to sell, persuade,
>convince, argue, or even, really, laud the merits of any
>language over any other
>language
>
>*Muke!
>[1] And even less so random subsets of its participants...
>
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>don't be so hard on Lu Su, pretty please!
>it would be great that other non-indoeuropean native
>speakers be part of this list (and i hope Lu Su won't flee
>from here). i found it difficult enough to figure out how to
>subscribe and i wonder how non-native speakers with even
>dodgier english abilities than mine can manage it. once they
>do it, i guess they are entitled to witness on CONLANG that
>blunt plural, tense affixes/flexions, articles and the like
>are very puzzling and even irking to him/her, aren't they? i
>feel free here to say that i have felt frustrated with stuff
>like greek optative, hebrew verbs and japanese homonyms.
>although i designed my own conlang to get rid of all the
>above, i still consider myself a conlanger (more
>specifically a "hoaxlanger"), yet not an auxlanger. some
>conlangers find it aesthetically appealing to thrive on a
>dozen cases and to put in the sale two boxes of lateral
>fricatives for the price of one while some others like to
>repeat after me "you-me bonga-bonga". Toki Pona is a
>conlang, isn't it? QAFT i am aware that in the case that Lu
>Su were inferring that an auxlang should not feature a
>mandatory plural affix, then he/she should rather develop
>this topic on AUXLANG --does that list still exist btw?
>
>Mathias
>www.geocities.com/kalatunu/index.htm