Even with the volume of constructed languages that exist, I've never seen formal analysis documenting the successive approaches one or more constructed languages took in an effort to really engage and convert "early adopters" for a constructed language.
By engage, I mean finding users of the la...
Yes, I know, you'll be a good catch for someone some day. And yes, I'm well, but exhausted. Spent this afternoon helping some friends move house - straight across the street from their old place.
Necessary. Their landlord wanted to sell the house, so they were kicked out. There was an identical house vacant across the street. So it suited. And it meant that they didn't need to hire a truck or anything to move with.
@DavidWallace If we're organizing a chat event, the thing is different. Certainly, anyone can join, even those who didn't register! This thing is just for me to see what's the best time for everyone.
Well, you told me that you had finished there, and were going to do your doctorate elsewhere. Then you told me that you weren't going to go to the place where you had planned to do your doctorate after all. So I assumed that that meant that you would do it at the same Uni where you had done your masters; but I acknowledge that I have no particular reason to so assume. In which case, I would be curious to know whether your new residence would be closer or further.
Pointing to a list you created the same day that contains no explaination is the same as your comment above without a link; meaning the link adds no value, and is confusing. Why is the question off-topic? Thanks! — blunders18 mins ago
Which is not true. I didn't create the ON/OFF topic list today
I moved it today yes, but it was in the FAQ all the time.
But a discussion of why linguistics only covers natural languages might not be.
Why does the wikipedia page about Tehran have four photos captioned "Panoramic view from Tehran", when the views are clearly of Tehran, not from Tehran?
@DavidWallace I mean that a discussion would be here in chat, not in a question. If you can word it so it doesn't sound like a discussion, then it's better in a question.
By the way, planned languages are like that: they are mostly regular and you know why. What is there to study? Natural languages work on a whole different level.
@Alenanno I can think of some questions about constructed languages that could be on topic, as long as they about the way language works in actual humans; for example, "why did Esperanto become more popular in Switzerland—did it have anything to do with the fact that they speak German, French, and Italian there?".
@Cerberus That seems borderline, but I get what you mean... Instead, you cannot ask "Where did the X ending in Esperanto come from?"... I mean, the answer would be "because the creator said so" :P
From wikipedia - "The word Sindarin is itself a Quenya form. The only known Sindarin word for this language is Eglathrin. It was probably only used in the First Age". People waste server space telling us this?
"Old Sindarin also had a spirant m or nasal v (IPA: [ṽ]), which was transcribed as mh (though always pronounced [v] in later Sindarin)." - Please give me back the time time I spent reading that!
@blunders: The underlying reason is probably that this is not part of the academic field of linguistics. And why is that? Because linguistics is about the way language works as a natural phenomenon, as perceived externally. So a constructed language is more about how an individual person would like to design an artistic project. That said, questions like why did Esperanto become more popular in x than in y? might be on topic, though perhaps they would be a better fit for History.SE. Questions about "how do I find x" are only on topic if they ask for resources about linguistics. — Cerberus1 min ago
Can you maybe get rid of the "constructed language" tag? Its presence suggests that constructed language questions are acceptable. And yet, of the 5 questions that bear this tag, 4 have been closed, and the other is asking something unrelated to constructed languages. So maybe the tag has to go.
We don't have to solve this, the international community has standard for this.
ISO 639-3 calls this a macrolanguage, named "hbs":
The individual languages within this macrolanguage are:
Bosnian [bos] Croatian [hrv] Serbian [srp]
I suggest that we have tags "croatian" "serbian" "bosn...
I propose that we follow Wikipedia and use serbo-croatian, unless some other consensual term exists among linguistics. But I don't think there is any such term; I think linguists normally classify the language as Serbo-Croatian:
On the one hand, offending people needlessly is not what we want....
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Most often I hear that only birth languages, those languages first learned, are native languages to the speaker. Seems like a pretty lazy way to define if a speaker is a native speaker, since to speak a language you've got to speak it, and speaking a language has no direct reference to how well y...
I was wondering what's the difference between a form of a language and a dialect of a language?
For example, Wikipedia states that British English is a form of English and not a dialect of English.
Another page states that "Standard Singapore English" is not a dialect, but a form of English. It...
We don't have to solve this, the international community has standard for this.
ISO 639-3 calls this a macrolanguage, named "hbs":
The individual languages within this macrolanguage are:
Bosnian [bos] Croatian [hrv] Serbian [srp]
I suggest that we have tags "croatian" "serbian" "bosn...
I propose that we follow Wikipedia and use serbo-croatian, unless some other consensual term exists among linguistics. But I don't think there is any such term; I think linguists normally classify the language as Serbo-Croatian:
On the one hand, offending people needlessly is not what we want....
I was wondering what's the difference between a form of a language and a dialect of a language?
For example, Wikipedia states that British English is a form of English and not a dialect of English.
Another page states that "Standard Singapore English" is not a dialect, but a form of English. It...
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