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<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/">http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/</A> <BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 7/12/09, Olivier Simon <I><cafaristeir@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>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).</DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV>That's only an idea....</DIV>
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<DIV>Olivier </DIV>
<DIV>(former secretary of the poll station in his village, and former lawyer who quashed a election in another village...)</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 7/12/09, Brett Williams <I><mungojelly@gmail...com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM, James Montgomery<<A href="http://us.mc574.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dreamripple@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank>dreamripple@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR>><BR>> Concerning the voting, I think there should be multiple votes. A preliminary to pull<BR>> out the best five (random number) and another to pick the best of those five.<BR><BR><BR>This idea is growing on me, especially as I've tried to research<BR>conlangs on the shortlist and been overwhelmed at the array of<BR>choices. My proposal is that we could vote soon (say, the beginning<BR>of August) on a reasonably small selection of finalists, before making<BR>the final selection in early September as planned. Then there would<BR>be a small enough number of choices to consider that I would feel like<BR>I could give them each fair consideration during that last month.<BR><BR>If some people wanted to get started right
away on studying the<BR>finalist languages, well I suppose that might be useful to everyone<BR>else in deciding which language is most likely to work.. It would be a<BR>sort of dress rehearsal, where you'd see what languages immediately<BR>sparked a conversation, which languages' inventors were hard to<BR>contact or unhelpful, etc. The most attention would end up going to<BR>the one winning language in September, but there's no reason anyone<BR>would stop learning the others-- I like how that's less of a<BR>winner-takes-all scenario.<BR><BR><BR><3,<BR>mungojelly<BR>aka<BR>brett<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>conlang_learners mailing list<BR><A href="http://us.mc574.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=conlang_learners@conlang.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank>conlang_learners@conlang.org</A><BR><A href="http://lists.conlang.org/listinfo.cgi/conlang_learners-conlang.org" rel=nofollow
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