[conlang_learners] Thoughts

[Eugene Oh]

We probably shouldn't use such subjective criteria in judging the conlangs
we have here. "Ugly" and "well-made" differ from person to person, and are
potentially insulting.
Eugene

2009/6/13 Olivier Simon <cafaristeir at yahoo.com>

> Sellamat James !
> I remember Adelic; I found it looked so ugly that I had planned to use it
> as a "Black Speech" for Role Playing Games !
> A well-made Germanic auxlang is Frenkish by David Parke:
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frenkisch/
>
> Olivier
> http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/
>
>
> --- On *Fri, 6/12/09, James Montgomery <dreamripple at yahoo.com>* wrote:
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> I agree that it shouldn't be an Auxlang. There are already some
> established. They really aren't in danger of going away any time soon.
> Personally, too many are Euroclones.
>
> I think that the first shouldn't be too terribly difficult, either. I think
> it would be better to work with one that's very manageable in a small amount
> of time. This will allow for fine-tuning and getting systems set-up for the
> following conlangs... Which leads me into...
>
> I believe we should also place weight on being able to modify the language.
> Even if it's with first getting approval from the creator, having one too
> rigid and archaic, without being able to...update it would seem like the
> best way to go. For preservation, yes. For practical use, no. Surely we can
> find a balance.
>
> An example of a language I've looked at seriously in the past was Adelic
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/6297/index.html I has a
> combination of things going for it, but also has some pitfalls. The largest
> being that this is the only page left for Adelic that has the whole corpus
> available to the public.
>
> I was Adelic's plight that led me to eventually find this group. Pages are
> going down. Authors can't be contacted, repositories are fading away, and I
> see this as almost as much of a loss as losing a unique Natlang. I'm not
> trying to be melodramatic, simply trying to point out what we all see
> happening.
>
> I'll be trolling your posts!
>
> James C. Montgomery
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