Re: Missing langs? (was: Re: Conlang T-shirt)

Paul Bennett wrote:
>
> tal writes:
> >>>>>>
> * Barry Garcia (Barry_Garcia@monterey.edu) [991019 13:11]:
> > I'm a little late to this due to my email problems but in Tilon Nevo the
> > phrase would be:
> /snip/
>
> How about the 'missing' languages, should the shirt have Esperanto,
> Quenya, Klingon or Lojban? Talossan?
> <<<<<<
>
> Going back to the original discussion (around a pub table at the recent
> conlangcon):
>
> I think we agreed against Klingon on the principle that any useful information
> is commercially protected.  Conlang (the list at least) seems to be far too much
> of an "open source" endeavour to condone that sort of thing.  E-o I think we
> could accept, but I'm not personally sure whether Quenya falls under the same
> banner as Klingon, not knowing enough about the promulgation of Tolkiens langs
> in general.
>
        I don't think there should be a problem with Quenya or Sindarin. I've
not heard about any commercial protection on those languages (but I
think there is on texts written in those languages, but that's not the
point). Klingon is pretty unique in the fact that its lexicon is
copyrighted.

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