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Re: What criteria do you have for your own or others' languages?

From:Sai Emrys <sai@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 22:52
On 12/6/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> Jörg Rhiemeier wrote: > > First of all, I think that any conlang ought to be measured against the > > purpose or design goals set by the creator. > > Yes, that, I think, is the most important criterion. Languages are > designed for all sorts of reasons - the conventional distribution of > conlangs into auxlangs, artlangs and engelangs is just that: > conventional. It's a convenience, but IMO it can also be misleading. So > few conlangs seem to me to fit nice and neatly into one of those categories. > > To evaluate a conlang we must, it seems to me, know _why_ its creator > designed it; and the end product should be examined against it.
This was intended to be a subpart of the question asked; my apologies if that was not clear. To rephrase: please (also?) specify what specific goals you have for your languages, and/or what goals you find appealing, admirable, etc., in others' languages. Certainly languages must be evaluated in the context of goals; I thought I had made that explicit but perhaps I failed to do so, since I consider it trivially obvious (and thus left it implied). - Sai