<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Sellamat prients ! </DIV>
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<DIV>I think that this "teaching adventure" should not be limited to a single project. </DIV>
<DIV>Of course, I wish Sambahsa would be chosen at the beginning (relatively low difficulty; it stands at the crossroads between natlang, conlang, artlang...). But I would hardly see people being obliged to be "held" on Sambahsa, even if they have appreciated the language <BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 6/19/09, Jim Henry <I><jimhenry1973@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [conlang_learners] Submission of conlangs<BR>To: conlang_learners@conlang.org<BR>Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 10:14 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Brett Williams<<A href="http://us.mc574.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mungojelly@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:mungojelly@gmail.com">mungojelly@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>> Well, what I thought of to not trigger people's competitive drive was<BR>> a lottery. We've in fact chosen a competition, and I don't think<BR>> people are likely to be fooled into feeling otherwise. There is such<BR>> a thing as a healthy competition, though, and I believe it is possible<BR>> that we can foster one.<BR><BR>I'm not sure "competition" is the right word for this either. By my<BR>count, only six of the twenty-four languages proposed so far were<BR>proposed by their creator, and of the other eighteen, only three<BR>others, I think, are created by people who are subscribed to this<BR>mailing list.<BR><BR>[rest trimmed]</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>