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Re: Re Barry Garcia

From:Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>
Date:Saturday, December 1, 2001, 3:00
Are you one of the chosen ones being bombarded with his posts?  I am.  It's
highly iritating.  I've had like 8-10 of them in 2 days.  And that's without
responding to a single one of them.

Adam

So lift the cup of joy and take a big drink.
In spite of it all it's a beautiful world.
-------Suzanne Knutzen




>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: > >"""""""""""""""""""""""""" >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... > >""""""""""""""""""""""""" >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
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