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charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Apr 10, 9:45=A0pm, Michael Everson wrote: > On 10 Apr 2010, at 22:31, Seth wrote: > > > i dont know... all but a few of my classmates and professors all but sp= it when prescriptivism, conlangs, or orthographies are mentioned. those thi= ngs aren't "real linguistics" to them. when i have told them about Esperant= o having natives, they entirely disregard the phenomenon as "not important"= . maybe my ling department is just particularly biased, but it is a large d= epartment, not just one isolated nazi. > > Then they are just bigots with their own narrow agenda. > > Seriously, that's just dumb. Neologisms are no different from conlang eng= ineering.Icelandhas a whole institute (=CDslensk m=E1lst=F6=F0) for devisin= g new terminology. =CDslensk m=E1lst=F6=F0 has got nothing to do with creating words or terms, that is something that the population, the users of the language does. The job that =CDslensk m=E1lst=F6=F0 had (it was merged with another instit= ute a few years back) was to do research on the Icelandic language. They did not create any words. >That's not any different from what Zamenhof or his followers did, or what = Gode did for Interlingua. Real linguists >study Tolkien's languages both be= cause he was a great linguist (lexicographer as well as conlanger). > > Linguistics is a lot bigger than what some universities think it is, appa= rently. But if your colleagues can't take joy in Quenya or Lojban, that's e= vidence for their blinkeredness, nothing more. > > Michael --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. 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