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Re: artlang-blindness of linguists (was ...)

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Friday, December 12, 2003, 1:26
--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
scrievit:

> >But there is a handful of artlangs which have > >reached a rather stable > >mode of existence. Andrew Smith's Brithenig > >is pretty stable; > > Yes, but isn't this stability mainly caused by > the fact that Andrew abandoned it?
Abandonned is not exactly the right word. It is apparent that he still adds words to the lexicon; there are people making translations into B (and Andrew may well be one of them). On the other hand, it is apparent that B's period of rapid development is past).
> Besides, I don't know the size of > its lexicon.
What is on the webpage is not everything, I'm sure.
> Has it reached "full usability"?
I'm not sure what I'd say. I always found the vocabulary to be vèry limiting (one of the pitfalls of working with someone else's language!); though the grammar was pretty well fixed by the time I came across iy years ago.
> >Klingon has an official dictionary and > >grammar; in the case of Quenya > >and Sindarin, we have at least a published > >corpus available to > >linguistic analysis; there are certainly > >others. > > Yes, don't forget Verdurian, Teonaht, and some > of the other languages around here.
T! Yes - forget not Teonaht! Padraic. ===== la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu. -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .

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