Re: Language Creation: The International Language Construction Bulletin (working title :)) )
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 3, 2002, 9:03 |
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En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:
>
> Presumably #1 should be: What is a conlang? or What is conlanging?
>
Good idea! Who wants to write the article?
> >Also, I think Irina's idea of having for
> >each issue the title "Language Creation" translated in a conlang (in
> native
> >script :) ),
> Definitely agree. Perhaps, to work in "international" with the right
> sense,
> you could go with: "Language Creation: an international journal". If
> we
> were more of an organized group (ha ha!), it might be something like
> "Bulletin of the International Conlang Society", though that might be
> a
> little pretentious.
>
"Language Creation: an International Journal" sounds good, but you have to
remember that the words "Language Creation" will be in a conlang, while "an
International Journal" will stay in English. So for many people it will look
like "<ununderstandable thing>: an International Journal", which might look odd
for those who don't know what it's about :)) . That's why I was more in favour
of an explicit title: "Language Creation: an International Journal of Language
Construction". It won't be repetitive in reality since the first words will be
in a conlang (and in the script of that conlang, in big, while the second part
will be more a subtitle). I'm just not sure of the preposition to use. What
sounds nicer: "of Language Construction", "for Language Construction", "on
Language Construction"? And is "Journal" better than "Bulletin"?
> Perhaps it would be useful to have a "statement of mission", say on
> the
> inside cover of every edition, explaining what we're all about. I'm
> not
> sure we should actively discourage _all_ IAL proposals, though perhaps
> it
> should be made clear that the more virulent varieties aren't
> especially
> welcome
>
A statement of mission would indeed be nice. As for IAL, anything having to do
with IAL politics will be banned from the Journal (I don't want it to be a
tribune for IAL makers to argue about what's better for an IAL). But the IAL
goal is not by itself a problem (BrSc wouldn't be a problem for instance, since
there the IAL goal is more a technical constraint that Ray gave himself for the
construction of this language than a statement of faith :)) ). It's the
discussion on what is the IAL goal which is a problem, because it inevitably
turns into flamewars (and I don't want the "answers" rubrique to be filled with
haineous articles against a former article).
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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