-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sat, Apr 10, 2010 3:45 pm
Subject: Re: [lojban] Response ro Robin's "Essay on the future of Lojban"
On 10 Apr 2010, at 22:31, Seth wrote:
> i dont know... all but a few of my classmates and professors all but spit when
prescriptivism, conlangs, or orthographies are mentioned. those things aren't
"real linguistics" to them. when i have told them about Esperanto having
natives, they entirely disregard the phenomenon as "not important". maybe my
ling department is just particularly biased, but it is a large department, 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
engineering. Iceland has a whole institute (Íslensk málstöð) for devising new
terminology. 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
because he was a great linguist (lexicographer as well as conlanger).
Linguistics is a lot bigger than what some universities think it is, apparently.
But if your colleagues can't take joy in Quenya or Lojban, that's evidence for
their blinkeredness, nothing more.
Michael
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