Re: Computer Language Question
| From: | Amanda Babcock <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 14:37 |
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:57:02PM -0500, Erich Rickheit KSC wrote:
> This is one of the answers to Elgin's
> riddle of why Láadan vanished but tlhIngan became immensely popular.
I would add to that "tlhIngan is a tie-in to a popular mass-media
phenomenon" and, most annoyingly, "Láadan does not allow free access
to the grammar and vocabulary". If you want something to be a success,
*don't copyright it*.
(I know, tlhIngan was commercial too, but we're back to that mass-media
thing then.)
Amanda
Found it mightily vexing some five or so years ago when she couldn't learn
Láadan online
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