On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Paul Hartzer<paulhartzer@...> wrote:
> But for engelangs and artlangs, I think the primary goal should be intrinsic
> rather than extrinsic.

Hear, hear!

While I confess a fondness for [T] and [D] myself, the greatest burden
Tolkien left me is not phonetic.

I'm almost purely an artlang creator. I don't write novels. I rarely
attach created cultures to my languages, though a little bit of that
can be useful. And I certainly have no plans to create an auxlang.
But one thing I've recently become more consciously aware of in most
of my past languages is that they are implicitly afflicted with the
dreary Romantic Weltschmerz of Tolkien's elves, along with an
aversion to modern technology I personally don't have. I have
dealings with computers and mass transit systems almost daily, but
appropriate vocab for them is rarely in my languages.

In my recent languages I've made a deliberate effort to move into
the 20th century at least. Plenty of languages have a verb affix
which means "go (somewhere) to VERB." I've always been fond of
that sort of derivation, but now I'm likely to include one that means
"go (somewhere _online_) to VERB."

--
William S. Annis
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