[Foundation-l] Priorities

Thu Oct 25 12:14:34 UTC 2007

On 10/25/07, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
> > When there is no conflict and we can work side by side with
> > language preservationists, extreme polyglots, and conlang
> > advocates thats great.
>
> This discussion would benefit if vague and derogatory words like
> "dying" and "extreme" could be avoided.  (Is Icelandic a dying
> language?  Are Danes who also wish to learn Lithuanian extreme?)
> The category "conlang" (trying to put both Esperanto and Klingon
> under the same hat) isn't exactly useful either.

My mind boggles at how someone could consider "dying" either
vague or derogatory. I would have thought it to be a _stark_.
expression, with a clear poignancy, regardless of whether one
was of the view that such cannot be rescued or not.

> In the lack of a strong list moderator, we all have to consider
> self-moderation and keeping discussions on topic.

Doctor, heal thyself, comes to mind.

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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]