[conlang_learners] Now or in September?

[James Montgomery]

I visited the page and liked it. It's a good idea to be able to see shortcoming that I potentially hadn't thought of. Thanks for starting that.

After having read that, I suggest that perhaps we would like to choose a conlang with a creator we are in contact with. This being out first go of it as a group, it may be prudent to avoid any disputes if there is a necessary change to the conlang during our learning process. Having a living, communicative reference would be beneficial.

I had talked about Adelic initially, but never really meant to nominate it. I only meant to use it as an example and can't really recommend it for at least a few learning passages. Unless someone else disagrees, I don't think it should be on the initial ballot.

James

--- On Mon, 7/13/09, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jim Henry <jimhenry1973 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [conlang_learners] Now or in September?
> To: conlang_learners at conlang.org
> Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 4:39 PM
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM,
> Padraic Brown<elemtilas at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone have a suggestion for a
> non-prejudicial way to
> >> tabulate
> >> these preliminary judgements?
> >
> > There may not be an entirely non-judgemental way to do
> this. Each person simply has to, well, be a man and not take
> any criticism personally.
> 
> What I meant was, a way to collect and record those
> judgments without
> making it look as though one person's judgment about the
> conlang was
> already the group's official judgment on it.  It
> seemed that the
> original idea of simply adding notes to the conlangs on the
> main list
> saying "too complex" or "too under-documented" would have
> that
> disadvantage.  Collecting people's judgments on the
> Talk: page, or
> somewhere else other than the main "Learners shortlist"
> page, would
> not.
> 
> http://wiki.frath.net/Talk:Learners_shortlist
> 
> However, wiki.frath.net seems to be having problems at the
> moment...
> 
> -- 
> Jim Henry
> http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/
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