Re: if you have a moment...

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Sandy Rhodes wrote:

>
> Maybe we could just say "lang" instead of "conlang" and use more
specific 
> terms like "auxlang" or "artlang" when needed.
>
> I agree that "con" has a lot of negative CONnotations, so to speak.

I have never had a problem with 'conlang' as a abbreviation for
'constructed language', whatever be the purpose of the constructing. 
Terms such as 'artlang' and 'auxlang' are available for more
specificity (provided we recognize that historically there have been
auxlangs which were/are not conlangs, such as Assyrian, Aramaic, Koine
Greek, and to a large extent English today).

-- 
Paul Bartlett