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

: 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.

On the contrary: we encourage IALs as *conlangs*, and are duly interested in
the linguistic features thereof, but not the IAL features thereof.  They
should be looked at no differently than other artlangs created with a
specific purpose, like Lin with its goal of compactness.  (Unfortunately for
IALs, in my opinion their goals tend to be very subjective things, like a
'phonology thats easy to pronounce for the vast majority of people', or a
'grammar that's easy to learn'. A possible solution would be to ground the
goals more concretely : 'a phonology that maximizes acoustic distinctness',
'a grammar that can disambiguate precisely and is independent of prosodics',
so that they can be discussed on a solid factual basis.)

On the other hand, I'd like to encourage the disencouragement of auxlang
*promotion*.  Discussion is great.
(has been trying to break the lurker habit)

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shreyas