Talk:Constructed language/Archive2

message: I am currently organizing a conlangs conference, to be held at UC Berkeley in late April / early May.
Please see http://www.livejournal.com/~ucb_lcs for more info - including the call for speakers / attendees and the preregistration form. More information will be posted to that first URL as I know it, and emailed to people who've sent me their prereg.
I'm not sure where/how to list this on the main Conlangs entry (and portal) - since this is more a 'current event' or 'invite' than regular entry info. I'd appreciate it if someone did so for me (IJzeren Jan?).
Thanks, and see y'all there!
--Sai Emrys 06:01, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Conlangs Conference / Colloquium - April/May 2006

message: A while back, it has been proposed that we merge Fictional language with List of fictional languages. Until now, only three people have given their opinion, one against the merger, two in favour. Some more input on Talk:List of fictional languages would be appreciated. ----IJzeren Jan  In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij 09:26, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: As the header suggests, JonMoore and I have finally created a WikiProject Constructed languages. We discussed the possibilities, the pros and the contras of it before, but now we finally have it. Everybody who is interested is sincerely invited to join! —IJzeren Jan  In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij 22:15, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Constructed languages 

message: If I'm out of line posting this here, let me know, but AFAIK I'm not. So, two items that may be of interest to people watching this. (I've posted about this elsewhere - eg LJ Conlangs and the CONLANG list - but I know not everyone watches those who watches here.)
1. I'm assembling a bulk order of Conlangs flags. That's the one designed on CONLANG - . They will be 3'x5' grommeted screenprinted 1-side/1-ply knitted polyester. The price is dependent on # ordered; at present I have 9 people signed up for one. My quotes are $53 per for 6 orders, $31.25 for 12, and $18.50 for 36. Plus $8.50 shipping worldwide. I'm not making any money off it, and I'm not handling the actual shipping and payment - those'll be done direct with the vendor - I'm just coordinating this into a single order and making sure everyone's paying the same. If you want one, email me - conlangs@saizai (I'm a dotcom, yay) - with your name, email, and your max price. Deadline is 18 January 2006.
2. I'm doing the Conlangs DE-Cal (LJ website) at Berkeley again this year. Will try to make all videos published online again and freely available - last year's are on videos.google.com and archive.org (though about half - and the better half, too, since I do learn over time - are missing due to a massive hard drive failure :-/). It'll be more hands-on and a less lecturey / less heavy workload class than last year's, and judging by response so far it may turn out to be a rather large class. Will know more about that once I have a semi-confirmed enrollment figure, in a month or so.
Hope that's useful. --Sai Emrys 14:51, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slightly OT: Conlangs flag & Berkeley class 

message: Rycanada (talk • contribs) has changed "regularized grammar" to "prescriptive grammar". I believe this is not the same idea. A regularized grammar (as I've always understood the term) is a grammar that has made regular, either by design from scratch or by removing irregularities from a natural language. A prescriptive grammar need not be regularized (actually it would be regulated).  --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 17:06, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regularized or prescriptive? 

message: There has been a merger tag on Naturalistic planned language for a long time.  Would anyone here care to comment on/action the proposal as I don't know the subject well enough to offer a useful input. Kcordina 14:41, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, and I also dug up its inevitable counterpart, Schematic planned language. Yes, I think these should be merged into Constructed language (as per ancient VfD). Give me a few days, and I'll take care of it. —IJzeren Jan  In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij 18:31, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've moved both babies into international auxiliary language, which on second though is where they belong, rather than in constructed language. —IJzeren Jan  In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij 21:45, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Top work, well done! Kcordina  Talk  08:56, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger from naturalistic planned language 

message: * The following AFDs are currently open: Siberian language (2nd time).
* The following AFDs were recently concluded resulting in delete: Kaytrin, Esata (2nd time).
* The following AFDs were recently concluded resulting in merge and redirect: D'Armond Speers.
* The following AFDs were recently concluded resulting in keep: High Icelandic, Wenedyk (2nd time)
* The following AFDs were recently concluded resulting in no consensus: Talossan (2nd time)
--IJzeren Jan 08:48, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: VfDs and VfUs

message: For those who haven't noticed it yet: we have a very nice new Portal:Constructed languages! ----IJzeren Jan  In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij 10:31, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal 

message: The article assumes Modern hebrew is a Constructed language, while it's more like a Creole language. Anyways, regarding modern-hebrew as constructed need citation. Oyd11 16:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Hebrew 

message: This page seems to be written entirely in the conlang, with no explanatory text in any natural language as far as I can tell, or links to such.  Can anyone suggest why it might be notable enough to list in the short list of links in this article rather than in one of the "list of constructed/artistic/fictional/etc languages" articles? --Jim Henry 13:33, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the whole section Examples of Artificial Languages is redundant. I am going to remove it. — Tobias Bergemann 13:44, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [http://prtm.50megs.com/index.html Prtm] 

message: What evidence is there that Ygyde maximizes conciseness or even was intended by its creator to do so?  My understanding is that its design might arguably make it easier to learn than languages with a larger root vocabulary to memorize, and its lack of consonant clusters might make it easier to pronounce than many other conlangs, but that this comes at the expense of almost all content words being longish compounds.  Further, there seems to be no extended text in the language, only a few sample sentences, so we can't see any direct evidence of how concise it is when writing at length. --Jim Henry 15:50, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ygyde as maximizing conciseness? 

message: The external link to "Petaylish" takes you to a message board without a single post.  Delete?67.170.176.203 06:59, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite so. Thank you for pointing it out. In fact, I even doubt if a link to a forum of an individual language would be needed in the article about conlangs in general. I removed it. —IJzeren Jan  Uszkiełtu? 06:17, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Petaylish