[conlang_learners] Now or in September?

[Olivier Simon]

Sell aghyern prients ! 
 
I've realized I often confuse the words "auxlang" and "conlang", and I unconsciously tend to discard the latter because it sounds in French like an insult ("con" from Latin "cunnus" = "cunt" !). Of course, when I said "auxlang" I meant any kind of "conlang", including artlangs as well. 
Though I've only published material about Sambahsa (that some envision more as an artlang than an auxlang), I had created for my private use three Elfish, one Scandinavian and one Indo-aryan artlangs. And the remote ancestor of Sambahsa was an IE artlang. 
 
Olivier
http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/ 

--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Olivier Simon <cafaristeir at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Olivier Simon <cafaristeir at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [conlang_learners] Now or in September?
To: conlang_learners at conlang.org
Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 12:10 PM







Sell vesper prients !
 
A medium solution could be first to settle the final list of proposed auxlangs (assuming that this has not been already done with the Frath shortlist)..
Every member should be entitled to propose an auxlang; then a debate (an "electoral campaign") could arise on this restricted number of auxlangs before the true voting operations.
That's only an idea....
 
Olivier 
(former secretary of the poll station in his village, and former lawyer who quashed a election in another village...)
http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/ 


--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Brett Williams <mungojelly at gmail..com> wrote:


From: Brett Williams <mungojelly at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [conlang_learners] Now or in September?
To: conlang_learners at conlang.org
Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 12:01 PM


On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM, James Montgomery<dreamripple at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Concerning the voting, I think there should be multiple votes. A preliminary to pull
> out the best five (random number) and another to pick the best of those five.


This idea is growing on me, especially as I've tried to research
conlangs on the shortlist and been overwhelmed at the array of
choices.  My proposal is that we could vote soon (say, the beginning
of August) on a reasonably small selection of finalists, before making
the final selection in early September as planned.  Then there would
be a small enough number of choices to consider that I would feel like
I could give them each fair consideration during that last month.

If some people wanted to get started right away on studying the
finalist languages, well I suppose that might be useful to everyone
else in deciding which language is most likely to work.  It would be a
sort of dress rehearsal, where you'd see what languages immediately
sparked a conversation, which languages' inventors were hard to
contact or unhelpful, etc.  The most attention would end up going to
the one winning language in September, but there's no reason anyone
would stop learning the others-- I like how that's less of a
winner-takes-all scenario.


<3,
mungojelly
aka
brett
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