Re: [lojban] Re: Response ro Robin's "Essay on the future of Lojban"

[Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com>]

On 11 Apr 2010, at 12:41, sigvaldi wrote:

>> Seriously, that's just dumb. Neologisms are no different from conlang engineering.Icelandhas a whole institute (Íslensk málstöð) for devising new terminology.
> 
> Íslensk málstöð has got nothing to do with creating words or terms, that is something that the population, the users of the language does.

In point of fact, I knew people who worked there in the early 1990s, and they said that they did in fact receive calls from people who wanted to know what the Icelandic words for new things were. I knew people who worked on the Tölvuorðasafn (the computer terminology dictionary), published by the Málstöð.

Having *myself* been involved with the development of Irish computer terminology, I can tell you that much vocabulary *is* created by committees of people, and does not just "well up" from the populace.

I recall one story that someone had build a bowling alley and named it "Bóling" but people were unhappy at a barely-assimilated loanword being used. At length "Keila" was chosen, if I remember correctly. 

Michael

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