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Re: Language Creation: The International Language Construction Bulletin (working title :)) )

From:Aidan Grey <grey@...>
Date:Friday, May 3, 2002, 14:18
> >"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"?
I prefer "Language Creation: An International Journal of Language Construction". Journal does NOT sound pretentious to me, and Bulletin sounds like a crummy zine stapled together. Aidan