Re: TECH: Official languages of the list

Surely we ought to invent the ideal language to discuss conlangs in, and
then learn it? It might have the minor downside of blocking new
subscribers to the list from understanding anything though... a
meta-language whose primary design goal is to be able to describe other
languages with ease, like... I don't know... maybe a cross between YACC
and lojban (describing the structure of another language while being as
grammatically unambiguous itself as possible).

>>I suppose that this list could never consider its official language to be
>>that used by its members on a daily basis for communication amongst
>>themselves.
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>But that would be straightforwardly pragmatic. That kind of thing is not
>tolerated on this list. You should be ashamed of yourself for even
>suggesting it.
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>It is much more likely that subscribers will argue at length, in English
>and only in English, about what the official language of the list should
>be. I think the argument should start with a complete and exhaustive
>explication of the meaning of 'language'.
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>-- Mark
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