Re: Artlangers vs. auxlangers (was Re: Tell your conlang story!)

On 01/03/06, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> Hanuman Zhang wrote:
>
> > 1) How did you get in to conlanging? What was your inspiration?
> >
> >     I got into from a deep interest in both poetry and science fiction.
> > At first I got into auxlangs like Glosa, but I am too much of a pragmaticist
> > and creative "rogue" to fit in with the auxlang crowd (who seem to lack the
> > depth of linguistic knowledge of the conlanging crowd as well as a tolerance
> > for humour and wackiness).
>
> Very true; I have made the same observation.  Most auxlangers only know a handful
> of western and central European languages, and take "typically European" linguistic
> features for granted; most auxlang descriptions I have seen are linguisticaly naive,
> for example, describing the language in terms of letters rather than phonemes.
Oi, Pidse [wiD@] ("the only regularly-spelt word in the language") is
an auxlang that's almost always got a phonetic transcription of the
pronunciation of a word after the orthography! Not all auxlangers are
so bad :)

> And then the auxlangers are dead serious about their proposals,  and are in a state
> of constant trench warfare about which proposal is best.  Sigh.  Artlangers are sooooo
> much more humourous and tolerant.
>
> And finally, they haven't realized that the race has already been run - and English
> is the winner ;-)
Well that's exactly *my* point. English has won because it's the most
excentrically-spelt language well-known. Just teach a few people Pidse
and everyone will instantly want to switch :)
</tongue-in-cheek>

--
Tristan.