Re: Average life of a conlang

Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Hallo!
>
[snip]
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:38:22 +0100, R A Brown wrote:
>
>> [...] But what
>> about the Briefscript Project? It began about 1958 and is still not
>> finished!
>
> 50 years, and still working on it?!  That's indeed a long-running
> project.  I wasn't even aroud when you started it.  See that you
> finish it soon, otherwise it may be at your grandchildren to
> complete it :)
I think not. If I don't finish it, then either it will for ever remain
unfinished or else some conlanger will discover it after I've quit this
mortal coil and s/he will complete it.

Help? Could I then suffer the same fate as Jespersen? Memories of the
Novial-wars come back when competing camps (at least 4 IIRC) were
flaming each other, and at least one them claiming to know the mind of
Jespersen himself! (It was during this internecine flaming I decided it
was time to quit Auxland).

Nah - I had better get the thing finished soon    :)

As it happens, I've had two or three emails sent me privately about
Piashi (the final incarnation of the Briefscript project). These have
prompted me to turn back to the project again - and I have been working
on it fairly seriously again in the past week.

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Ray
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