Re: Hiho
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 5, 2003, 19:45 |
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In a message dated 2003:04:05 12:01:56 AM, gwalla@DESPAMMED.COM writes:
>Tristan McLeay wrote:
>> Vonlia wrote:
>>
>>> Also, is there perhapse an IRC channel where conlanging goes on?
>>>
>> Not that I know of. But it sounds like it couldn't hurt :) Might bring
>> down the amount of off-topic chatter on here. But I doubt it. In
>> reality, it'll probably just bring it up :) :)
>
>I founded a #linguistics a little while back on the Nightstar.net
>network, where I'm an oper. It gets almost no traffic though.
There was once upon a time an AuxLang IRC. But the continous bickering
between Esperantists, Interlinguists, Glosists, and Eurolengoers got a little
too
much (& too personal) and AFAIK the AuxLang IRC no longer exists.
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Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...
"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_
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