Re: T-Shirt proposals

From: Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...>


> On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Dr. David E. Bell wrote:
>
> > > 1. Include only our conlangs.
> > > 2. Proposal 1 + some well-known artlangs (Klingon, Quenya, etc.)
> >
> > Umm...  Klingon and Quenya aren't conlangs????
>
> They're conlangs all right, but not *our* conlangs; none of us made
> them, unless Herman had a hand in Klingon as well.
Oh my!  Under that interpretation, I think we are missing a whole category
of potential languages to be included/excluded.

Where does Lojban fit in this proposal.  Although John has done a great job
in documenting Lojban, I don't think he claims to be its creator.   I
haven't seen Lojbab (Bob LeChevalier) around here nor Dr. Brown.

Does *our* include creators no longer on the list?  If not, Would Mark
Line's Classical Yiklamu be excluded?  Or any of Jeffrey Henning's
languages?  What about Rick Morneau's Danojambi?  Or Rick Harrison's Vorlin?
Or Skrintha's Lin?  Or John Fisher's Elet Anta? (Is John still around?) et.
al.

And what about not so well-known conlangs created by people not on this
list.  What of LaAdan or Talossan or Tsolyani?  Are we saying that
translations into these languages would be inadmissible?

It would seem to me that any and all of these would be includable before we
considered natlangs.

David