li [James Landau] mi tulis la ...
> My proposal: A journal on constructed languages, published at regular
> intervals, reviewing conlang topics in articles of the highest
> quality. The journal would be published in dead-tree format, but could
> be accessible over the Internet.
>
> There is a serious gap in the academic coverage of conlangs. And we
> need something to fill that gap. Medicine, physics, mathematics,
> malacology all have their respected journals that are accepted as
> reliable sources. For Verdurian, Ceqli or Toki Pona? Nothing.
>
> The conlang journal would meet the most rigorous standards of
> scholar****p, and would exhibit accurate application and knowledge of
> linguistics (such things as the phoneme inventory and allophones, SOV
> vs. SVO vs. VSO, or gender systems would be examined by what the
> creator actually displays in use of the language and examples rather
> than copied word-for-word from the conlanger's website). It would also
> constitute exemplary journalism, with reviewers being held to accurate
> fact-checking.
>
> Topics might be: Teonaht, Sindarin, aUI, the history of Esperanto
> music, roots in oligosynthetic conlangs, the effect of Adjuvilo on
> IAL's, criteria in judging the relative simplicity of Loglan vs.
> Lojban, the extent of borrowing words from Terran languages in
> conlangs spoken on planets far, far away, or the distribution of color
> words in fictional languages. No one would be allowed to review his/
> her own conlang. It could be said to be a peer review of constructed
> languages.
>
> And one more thing: The conlangs being reviewed must be of real
> interest to somebody other than its creator. Languages like Verdurian,
> Kelen~, Brithenig and Ithkuil are definitely legitimate topics for
> articles in the journal, but your new ergative personal language with
> 33 words you created just last week is not. Basically, review
> languages that are sure to stick around.
>
> So, how do we go about establi****ng such a journal?
We discussed this on AUXLANG a while back for a journal related
to auxiliary languages. One member actually registered the
auxlang.org domain and started a site, while another set up a
wiki. So far there hasn't been much interest in either though
the discussion seemed to indicate otherwise.
I think Langmaker.com does a pretty good job of keeping on top
of the conlang scene, such as it is.
As I suggested when we were discussing an Auxlang journal, I
don't know if I like "reviews" (personal opinions) so much but
would prefer more of a white paper (descriptive) approach to
covering various languages.
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