[conlang_learners] Thoughts

[James Montgomery]

I don't remember who originally suggested it yesterday, but it's a great idea. The two-group method would allow for some freedom. I also think that it would allow the groups to help the other learn their conlang (if desired). 

One of the biggest pitfalls for exotic Natlangs is the lack of learning materials. We're kinda skirting around that via group learning. The notes and other misc accumulated by the group's learning process could also act as material for anyone else following their steps.

I hope I'm not over-thinking this.

James 

--- On Sat, 6/13/09, Wayne S. Rossi <felianan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Wayne S. Rossi <felianan at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [conlang_learners] Thoughts
> To: conlang_learners at conlang.org
> Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009, 7:46 AM
> 
> --- On Sat, 6/13/09, Eugene Oh <un.doing at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> I don't entirely agree.  I think that a lot of what
> will be needed in the project of actually learning a
> language is going to be having a subjective attraction to
> it.  Unless it's attractive in itself as an "idea
> language" like Lojban or Esperanto in their own ways, we've
> got to have a certain spark of enthusiasm for the language
> ourselves.  Something that is just plain unappealing
> isn't going to have the force to keep them to a project of
> actually learning it.
> 
> That said, I think that we really ought to target ourselves
> for some system that will actually select two languages, in
> such a way that everybody in the group will want to learn
> one or the other (or both) and we can divide the resulting
> study group in two along those lines.  Given the size,
> I think allowing some room for taste is the only way to go.
> 
>  - Wayne
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