On Mar 10, 12:14 am, Paul Bartlett <bartl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> 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).
I like the word "conlang" actually, so I voted "pretty". I hadn't
realised the negative connotations of "con", maybe because English is
not my first language. I also like the more specific "artlang",
"engelang" (engineered languages, the ones I'm most interested in),
"auxlang" and so on :)
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