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

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, May 3, 2002, 6:14
Shreyas Sampat wrote:
(in reply to my........

>: 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)
Apologies if my phrasing was unclear, or overly harsh. You have said what I meant.

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Shreyas Sampat <shreyas@...>