On Sep 23, 5:32 pm, "X. Rayburn" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Creation of such a journal is one of the goals of the Language Creation
> Society, led by a Berkeley weirdo named Sai Emrys
Sounds great! Of course, we should include artlangs (and definitely
engelangs/loglangs) instead of just auxlangs.
> > And one more thing: The conlangs being reviewed must be of real
> > interest to somebody other than its creator.
>
> Ah, here we come to the real motivation, the desire to proclaim that
> some conlangs are worthy and others are crap.
It is not that some conlangs are "crap". It is rather that some
conlangs are notable and others are not notable. Wikipedia doesn't
make good judgment calls in its record of keeping or deleting conlang
articles, so it's up to the conlang community to use good judgment as
to which languages to keep or delete.
Padraic makes an excellent point about conculture in conlanging. The
articles should hit on the conculture of any fictional languages (as
well as altlangs, if they had a who-invaded-whom story to go with
them), and can go into detailed analysis of how the conculture is
reflected in the language. Of course, the journal should also point
out when something in the conlang seems to contradict something in the
conculture that goes along with it.
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