Some of my posts to the CONLANG Mailing List

NOTE: This list is neither complete nor exhaustive. I have only included posts which are probably of lasting significance, and omitted the many cursory replies on various threads I have participated in over time. Here you can find posts about Old Albic and Germanech (much of it now out of date, though), the futility of auxlanging, the misguidedness of taxonomic vocabularies and other matters.

The messages are listed in chronological order in each category, with the earliest on the top.

The art of conlanging
Linguistics
My conlangs
Comments on other people's conlangs
Miscellaneous

The art of conlanging

Wittgenstein on conlanging Are conlangs "private languages"?
Auxlangers vs. Artlangers #2 #3
Non-human languages #2
The Great Sundering (of CONLANG and AUXLANG) #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Auxlangs in conworlds #2
Was Tolkien a good conlanger? #2
What makes a good conlang? #2 #3 #4 #5
The Naturalist Manifesto revisited #2 #3
Of artlangs & engelangs
Wittgenstein & 'private language'
Linguistic knowledge and conlanging #2 #3
Magical languages
Constructing plausible language evolution - two book recommendations on the subject.
What is it we are saying in our languages?
What criteria do you have for your own or others' languages? #2
Can realism be retro-fitted? On problems of diachronic conlanging.
How do diacronic conlangers work? Discussion with BPJ. #2
artlangs/auxlangs/engelangs Comments on the Gnoli triangle. #2 #3 #4
Efficiency/Spatial Compactness #2 #3
artlangs as engelangs discussion with And Rosta. #2 #3
Aesthetics #2 #3 #4
Futility of auxlangs
Building from primitives. On problems with closed vocabularies and loglangs. #2 #3 #4 #5
A proposal to bring together the conlang communities #2 #3 #4 #5
Conlanging and journaling #2 #3
Conlanging with constraints
Wikipedia:Verifiability - Mailing lists as sources Discussing Wikipedia's policy on conlangs. #2 #3 #4 #5
Conlangs as art - a spin-off of the above thread. #2 #3
Facing mortality - what will happen to your conlangs after you have died? Discussion with Rick Harrison.
The philosophical language fallacy #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9
Art is when someone says 'Now' -- or is it? #2 #3 #4 #5
Average life of a conlang #2 #3 #4
Juvenile fooleries
Theory informs practice. Or not?
Theory informs practice, again. Differences between engelanging and naturalistic artlanging; alien conlanging.
Fictional auxlangs as artlangs #2 #3 #4 Unnatural auxlangs Juvenalia
Oligosynthetic languages in nature. Comments on a misunderstanding.
Formal vs. natural languages #2
Does conlanging change your sense of reality? Sapir-Whorf, once again. #2
Does your language have a mind of its own? When conlanging feels more like discovery than invention. #2 #3
How to tell when you're conlang's complete #2 #3 #4
The art of conlang critique #2 #3
Conlang referral service for movies/games/books. Sai Emrys has an idea how to sell our conlanging skills to Hollywood. #2 #3 #4 #5
Masculine and feminine nouns affect how one perceives objects? More fun with Sapir and Whorf, or do German tablecloths have sex with tables?
Arithmographic languages #2
Why are you constructing your language(s)?
Dead conlangs? Or merely dormant ones? #2
A Conlang for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Ideas about magical languages, e.g. in role-playing games.
Optimizing Vocabulary. Ideas for very concise conlangs.
Engelang with unnatural statistical properties? #2
"Naturalistic" for auxlangers vs artlangers? Different meanings of a word. #2
Problems with oligosynthesis #2 #3 #4
Naturalism and engelanging - reconcilable? #2
Licensing of Conlangs/Conworlds #2 #3
Question about a priori versus a posteriori artlangs - different usage of the terms between artlangers and auxlangers.
Semi-Taxonomic Lexicon Building - reasons why the philosophical languages failed.
Self-segregating morphologies #2 #3 #4 Oligosynthesis #2
"Best" way to write a complete description of a language
Tokana, Skerre and Watakassi Become Natlangs! An amusing research snafu in a scholarly paper, and what it may say about conlang naturalism. #2
Conlangs as Academic Evidence in Linguistic Studies What can conlangs say about the human language faculty?
The Platonic fallacy #2 A philosophical tangent.
Langue and parole
Artlangs and engelangs On conlang classification. #2
Conlangs as Academic Evidence in Linguistic Studies again. #2 #3 #4
The van Steenbergen Hexagon Comments on a conlang classification scheme. #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7
Euroclones - what makes a conlang one? #2 #3
Glossopoeia vs. reconstruction
Natlang loglangs? A discussion with And Rosta. #2 #3
Revisiting the artlang/engelang distinction #2 #3 Exolanging Kēlen #2
Conlang fans vs. conworld fans #2 #3
Natlanginess of Esperanto - arguably the conlang that comes closest to natlangs in having actual parole and not just langue.
Juvenalia once again.
Re-conlangs - are reconstructed languages conlangs? #2
How to decide when language documentation is done?
The essence of diachronic conlanging #2
Conlang confusion - what if the thing is so realistic that people mistake it for a natlang?
Design Perameters for Romanization
Roman letter syllabaries #2 #3 Featural abugidas and other scriptorial matters Syllabaries & abugidas #2 #3
Do artlangers dislike auxlangers? #2 #3 #4
New Year's Thoughts - how old is our art? #2 #3
Neo-Eldarin and related questions
Another conlang promoted to natlanghood #2
R2D2 language and conlangs in movies in general. #2 #3 #4 #5
Random Ramblings on the Process of Coining Words #2
Destroying the noun/verb distinction #2
Speedtalks and briefscripts with some notes on a conlang idea of mine. #2
Absolute beauty - is there such a thing at all? #2 #3
In the Land of Invented Languages - comments on Arika Okrent's book. #2 #3
Music and conlanging - two quite similar arts.
Transcription system for Books - how to transcribe conlangs, especially alien ones, presented in novels. #2 #3 #4
Non-verbose language #2
True Blood Language? On languages of vampires, elves and other strange folk.
Constructed language families #2 #3
Conlang classification #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
Definition of "exolang" #2
Linguistics in Science Fiction
Why Brithenig ain't an engelang - more on conlang classification. #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
Of cubes and triangles - yet more on conlang classification. #2 #3
A Portrait of the Conlanger as a Young Man - did we all start when we were 12?
Fiat Lingua, September: Is a Collaborative Conlang Even Possible?
Language design issues vs. advocacy
Lexicon (proportion and quantity) #2
Using pre-existing conlang Roots to create a new language
On Creating Altlangs #2 #3 #4 #5
Diverging design goals and misunderstandings #2
Phonetic transcription - problems with alien languages. #2 #3 #4 Modalities of alien languages
Is Esperanto Indo-European? #2 Fiction and language families #2
How to evaluate a conlang #2
Why the Vulcans don't speak a loglang #2
Featural scripts #2 #3
The Well-Tempered Alphabet - discussion of a project in which all phonemes are equally frequent.
Viability of loglangs for general purpose #2 #3 #4 Liva and Kinya
Loglangs - discussing what the term means with And Rosta. Replies
Use vs. description of langs #2 #3
Alien languages
Who surpassed Tolkien?
A priori and a posteriori - used differently among auxlangers and artlangers. #2 #3 #4
Brithening and bogolangs - art or engineering?
Design choices - what is a "philosophical language"?
Bogolangs, again Romlangs
Naturalistic Grammars #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Fictional vs. ...?
Loglangs and their goals
Good conlang samples are those which tell something of the imagined language's speakers.
More on conlang classification #2
What makes a good script?
"A priori" - a sore spot in conlang classification. #2 #3
Naturalism #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7
When do you have a "kitchen sink language"? and other aesthetic matters. #2
Beauty in conlangs
Ideals of concultures vs. those of their authors
Conlangs as model languages - how much does "completeness" matter? #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 Related matters #2
Graftlangs and hybridlangs #2
Naturalistic engelangs - a dubious concept.
The longer you conlang, the harder it gets
Naturalism vs. avant-garde #2 #3
How to change a conlang #2
Making and learning conlangs
On the proper use of conlangs in literature
Using IPA as orthography? #2 #3 #4
My personal conlanging history
Altlangs
Perfect language - an unattainable goal. #2
The modern history of conlanging - my personal conlanging history.
Romanization of conlangs
On old projects of mine and realistic diversity in conworlds
Lost conlangs
On spelling conventions in conlangs #2 #3 Homegrown transcription systems
Two scholarly works on conlangs (found on AUXLANG) #2 #3 #4
Irregularity in conlangs
In-universe conlangs
Conlang frame stories #2
Time to develop conworlds
Bogolangs and substratum theory
Conlang frame stories
Linguistic change in long-lived societies #2 #3 #4
Speculation
A classification of conlangers (I didn't make it, just commented on it) #2
Archlangs - a new classification? #2 #3 #4 #5 Conlang classification #2 #3
Fantasy auxlangs #2
Elven languages (of two kinds); fiction vs. speculation
Brainstorming prehistoric language - the pitfall of lexical anachronisms.
Who was the first diachronic conlanger?
Naturalistic conlanging - just what is naturalistic?
Conlang classification - an immortal subject that pops up every now and then! #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8
Conlang documentation and database - we cannot document them all! #2 #3 How many conlangers? #2
A priori vs. a posteriori, again
"Philosophical" languages etc.
Conlang classification once more. #2
Potential Conlang Classification System #2
Invented philologies
Language contact in conworlds
Novel project: a priori or a posteriori conlang? Why I wouldn't advice doing what Tolkien did with his Mannish tongues. #2 #3 #4
Conlanging methodology issues #2 #3
Vita brevis - iūdicium difficile - on projects that seem to last forever.
Mellifluousness and other subjective notions
Mixed scripts
Conlangers and Generativism
Bad scholarship can make good art #2 #3
Lewis and Tolkien
(Con)language Revival #2 #3 Modern Gaulish text Tursan
How would you make a lostlang?
Future languages
Lost langs and future langs
Some remarks on auxlangs past, present and future
Etymology of the word "bogolang"
The necessity of ambiguity
Is it possible to decipher a cryptolang? #2
Doubly fictional languages Con-conlangs Correction
Dictionary Length #2 #3 #4
Homophones
Sapir-Whorf yet again - about conlangs "doing their own things".
To Proto-lang or not to Proto-lang #2
Hermetic Languages, Personal Languages, Heart Languages, oh my! #2 #3 #4 Elves #2
On renaming conlangs
Toki Pona, Kalusa, and Mini-Langs #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 Quetch phonology issues
Do you make Conlangs to learn about Linguistics? #2
The appeal of romlangs and PIElangs #2 #3
"A priori" vs. "a posteriori", again #2 #3
Semantic primes, aprioricity and oligosynthesis #2
More on "a priori"/"a posteriori" #2
Sound change, analogy and computers #2
Yet more on "a priori"/"a posteriori" #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7
On "Schools" of Conlanging #2
IAL approaches
On "Schools" of Conlanging again. #2 #3
Unconstrained creativity? #2
Projects that take forever to finish
Failing group projects
Conlang Roots & Proto-Languages
Theoretical considerations on deductive languages #2 #3
The ergative wave of the 1990s
Maturation - the longer you conlang, the harder it seems to get, but really, just your standards rise.
What's the Appeal of Oligosynthetic Conlangs or Minilangs? #2
Do you make Conlangs out of other Conlangs?
A priori and a posteriori, once again #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7
Grammar + Phonology?
Perfectionism #2 #3 #4
Rebuilding conlangs #2
A fortiori conlangs - a rather humorous conlang classification.
Issues with systematic a priori languages #2 #3 #4
Indo-European and Nostratic conlanging #2 #3
"Frustration by being already satisfied" #2 #3
Conworlds of our conlangs
Documenting a Dialect Continuum

Linguistics

Long-range protolinguistics
Etruscana - is Etruscan related to Indo-European? #2
Nostratic #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8
The Monovocalic PIE Myth
Celtic languages? Also, lost languages of western Europe.
Dubious historical linguistics
Distant linguistic relationships
Afroasiatic, Eurasiatic, etc.
Celtic and Afro-Asiatic? A substratum theory discussed. #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
Historical Linguistics Question Comments on some crackpot theories.
Indo-European family tree #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10
Interesting pre-Greek article Discussion of Etruscan and other matters.
Standard Average European #2
Old European-contact conlang. What do we know about the languages of pre-Indo-European Europe? #2 #3
Neanderthal and PIE - why these have nothing to do with each other. #2 #3 #4
Origin of human language
Linguistic diversity in prehistoric Europe #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8
Universal Grammar #2
Some speculations on prehistoric European languages #2 #3
Universality of discreteness - discussion with Sai Emrys. #2 #3 #4
Pre-Greek - what little we know: discussion with Ray Brown. #2 #3 PIE glottalic theory
Language evolution - can parent languages of families continue to exist unchanged?
Origin of PIE ablaut #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8
Click genesis
Why there was no British Romlang
Evolution of language: discussion with various list members. #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9
Celtic #2 #3 #4 #5
Fairly controversial protolanguages - Uralo-Siberian, Indo-Uralic and others.
Etruscan - poorly understood, unknown origin, unknown affiliation. #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 Isolates Methodology in historical linguistics
Are right-branching languages easier to parse? Also, the difference between "parsing" and "understanding". #2 Quantum physics and the mind Human vs.programming languages
Affricates - do they pattern like places of articulation, or like manners?
Celticity? Celtic & other myths #2 #3
Which came first, the word for "chicken" or the word for "egg"? On language evolution. #2
Ablaut diachronics - the question of the origin of PIE ablaut, once again.
SAE - what is "Standard Average European?"
Grammatical gender #2
Onomastics and lost languages
PIE stops #2 #3 #4
PIE dorsals #2
Neanderthal languages etc.
Proto-Sapiens
Human language origins #2 #3
The Mitian problem
"Ice age superlanguage" - linguistics journalism at its finest: what is wrong with most long-range comparisons
Ejective consonants as a sign of mountain living - not really.
Equivalent to Grand Master Plans in Proper Linguistics? #2
On amateur scholars
Marking both patient and agent on verbs only if both are animate #2 #3 (with notes on Old Albic)
Semantic Primes - validity and application to conlanging? #2
Declining of number of noun cases in Indo-European languages.
Resumptive Pronouns
Templatic Morphologies
On clicks
On Nostratic
Origin of ejectives
Typology and language shifts
Invading Britain - on Celtic and other matters.
Single origin of writing?
American macrofamilies
Split ergativity in PIE
No phonology? #2 #3 #4
Sapir-Whorf test? Does that work? #2 #3
Celtic languages once again.
Paleo-European languages #2 #3 #4 #5
Allative and other local cases #2
An attempt at a Paleo-European overview
Ursprachen - different meanings in historical linguistics and language origins studies! Neanderthal languages
Rhaetian language - why "Ötzi" did not speak it.
Relation between culture and morphosyntax - bullfrogs! An apology In conlangs?
Numeric systems with a few notes on the Old Albic numeral system. Some remarks on PIE numerals
Prehistory of PIE - unknowable? #2
Amerind, Nostratic etc. #2
Paleo-European languages #2 #3
Nimian & Amerind
Alienable vs. inalienable possession #2
Starostin etc. on problems with long-range comparison. #2
Proto-languages
A thought on Ogham and the druidic language
The Urursprache? Problems with some deep relationship theories. #2
Pre-Agricultural fricatives - bogus ideas about prehistoric languages masquerading as science.
Resources on European substrate languages #2
Not using IPA for reconstructed languages
PIE laryngeals #2 #3 #4
On the Semantics of Mood - tense and aspect are not orthogonal.
Language-culture correlation - often not close. On reconstruction and the comparative method
Some musings about Paleo-European languages
Etruscans from Troy? #2 #3 #4 #5 Macrofamilies #2 #3 #4 Languages without recursion Cover symbols
Ablaut origins #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8
Another PIE study which shows that the Indus Valley culture probably did not speak an Indo-European language.
PIE stop types #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10
PIE for beginners?
Baltlangs - relationship between Baltic and Slavic.
Ancient Egyptian - when did it lose its case system?
Are my phonological rules naturalistic? Sibilants sometimes behave differently than spirants. #2
Picti - probably not a self-designation. #2 #3 #4
Welsh mutations aren't cases #2 #3 #4
Narrow and broad phone*ic transcription #2
An alternative to the glottalic theory in PIE. #2
Letter names vs. sound values
Some observations on apostrophes
Indo-Semitic hypothesis #2 #3 #4
Miscellanea Indo-Europaea
Pots, genes and languages in prehistoric Europe
Discovering that your conlang would be data for your thesis if it was a natlang - a temptation to be resisted!
Some speculations about the origin of PIE and its speakers #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
Grey spots in PIE #2
Northern and Southern Indo-European #2 #3 #4 #5
Gaelic orthography #2
Pointlessness of English spelling reform #2
Archaeo- or Paleolinguistics? #2
Thracian, Phrygian, "Pelasgian" etc. #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
Shibboleths
Ordering changes
Linguistic speculation
"Evidence for Basque as an Indo-European language" - comments on a crackpot idea. #2 #3
IE and Kartvelian
"sheep" in RomConlangs or rather, different words for it in Gaulish and Brythonic?
Opportunistic compounds
Thoughts about Pre-Greek #2 #3
Younger Futhark
Active/stative vs. dynamic/static #2
Diachronics of Celtic and Italic
PIE gender #2
Natlangs (Almost) Already Solved the Loglang Variable Problem
Japanese writing
Is English a creole? - not really, but the difference is rather a gradual one. #2 #3 #4 Why Britain doesn't speak Romance
Armenian stops #2 #3
High German consonant shift
Pronouncing ancient languages #2
Trying to draw an Indo-European family tree #2 #3 #4 #5
Classification issues #2

My conlangs

Comments on other people's conlangs

J. R. R. Tolkien's conlangs

Boreanesian (Kristian Jensen)

Some Boreanesian Phonological History #2 #3

Silindion (Elliott Lash)

Silindion verb conjugation #2 #3
"To Be" In Silindion, Observations Comments and comparison with Old Albic. #2
Silindion Relative Clauses Comments and comparison with Old Albic. #2
Development of Silindion verbal inflection

Tokana (Matthew Pearson)

Tokana: active? A comparison with Nur-ellen.

C'ali (Tom Wier)

Plan B (Jeff Prothero) and derivatives thereof

Plan B phonology Discussion with Ray Brown about Jeff Prothero's sketch. #2 #3
brz, or Plan B revisited Discussion of Ray Brown's "Plan B"-derived conlang. #2 #3
brz reloaded! Putting together the results of the discussion on "brz". Later to become X-1. #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
No vowels? (in Plan B, that is) #2 #3 Phonology of Plan B #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9
Plan B variations, such as my own X-1. #2 #3
Phonemes of Plan B again.

R. A. Brown's conlangs

Briefscript

Comments on Piashi #2 #3 #4 #5
Brx syllabary - Ray disambandons his project. #2 #3
More on Brx #2
Roman letter syllabary problems #2
Returning to the briefscript project
Briefscript morpheme inventory #2 #3

TAKE

Joseph Peanou RIP - Ray Brown says farewell to an alternative timeline.
TAKE Romanization? and other design issues of Ray Brown's Greek without inflections. #2 #3 #4

Britainese

A New Year calls for a new YARC #2 #3
"Bretainois" - two decisions Bretainois, Bretaineis or what? #2 #3
Some morphological issues
Initial [w h θ]?
Progressive verb forms
Latin final -t #2
Thoughts and decisions - will Ray abandon Britainese? #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11
Acute accent
Apostrophe
Britainese update (phonology and orthography)
Issues of how to proceed with the project #2
Ray's dilemma - which of the two projects to drop? #2 #3 #4 #5 #6

Stack-based languages

Discussion of stack-based syntax #2 #3 #4 #5
Stack-based human languages? #2
LIFO languages #2 #3
Right-branching vs. Left-branching, actually about stack languages. Why we don't speak them.
Fith and Lojban - unspeakable? #2 #3 #4 #5 Enough of this
Fith texts #2 #3 #4 #5
30-day project and stack depth #2 #3
Fith again
Stack-based languages and brain architecture

Sohlob and other languages by Benct Philip Jonsson

Comments on Kijeb #2
Vowels in Sohlob (and Albic)
Messing up Sohlob
Current thoughts on Sohlob determiners and cases with comparisons to Old Albic.
Naturalism in Sohlob
Proto-Sohlob-Isturjieb coming #2 #3
Case alignment in Sohlob #2
Counting on your fingers, Sohlshan style - my Elves do it the same way!
A small re-mark on Sohlob transcription?
Vowel coloring, the Sohlob take
Sohlob transliteration
Proto-Sohlob vowels, 2020 edition
Proto-Sohlob-Isturjieb coming, 2020 edition #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16
A Sohlob ambiguity and some finite verb forms #2 #3 #4
Proto-Sohlob vowels again #2 #3
Fortition/reduplication in Sohlob
Elvelo (BPJ's Elflang)
Vowels and gender markers in Sohlob and Old Albic
Ergativity in Sohlob #2
Ynglish Lexember and (re)introduction
Again Sohlob romanization woes

Herman Miller's conlangs

Tirelat vowels - a diachronic issue. #2
Proto-Jardic noun morphology #2
Revising Tirelat romanization
Stops in early Tirëlat #2 #3 #4 #5
Making sense of Azirian color vocabulary #2 #3 #4
Jarda history speculation
Jarda as a personal language #2

Vessian/Neo-Thracian (Daniel Benson)

Logical languages

Coping with Lojban - an unlearnable language?
Lojban langue and parole
Loglan, Lojban and the perfect language
What are loglangs? #2 #3
Why loglangs are bad auxlangs
How many parts of speech does a loglang need?

Others

Q Comment on Danny Wier's (huge) phoneme inventory, with a comparison to Nur-ellen.
Q (again) Discussion with Danny Wier about Elves, glottalic theory, and vowel systems.
Elvish ideas... Comments on Andreas Johansson's Meghean.
The Glyphica Arcana: Distinction - discussion of Jefferson Wilson's graphical language, with a syntactic parallel to Old Albic.
Austronesian style Latin - discussion of a romlang phonology by Barry Garcia
Terkunan Comments on Henrik Theiling's conlang. #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
Prevli Comments on Roger Mills's conlang.
Analyzing Ayeri's syntactic and voice alignment with comparisons to Old Albic.
Gender Origin and Evolution in J.Burke's conlang and elsewhere. #2 #3
Proto-Terzemian: You can't get there from here - a diachronic problem in Paul Bennett's conlang. #2
Liva and Kinya
Jan06
Intro to Scotian Part 1 #2
Who are the Elval? - BPJ's Elves. #2 #3 #4
The last doublehour of the Island of Bothflanks - a weird reality-embedded conworld!
The Electroceptive Modality - a project by Logan Kearsley. #2 #3
Gender markers in Itlani and Old Albic
Starting over - Mark J. Reed thinks he has to. #2
An "a posteriori" taxonomic language
Documentation of 1S=1S=1S - is Seth Kazan just bluffing? #2
Vulcan #2
Almean languages
Unknown lang/cypher - can't help, but it looks cool.

Miscellaneous topics

My first post to CONLANG (OK, not of lasting value. But it was my first!)
Conlang Typology Survey - data on Germanech and what was to become Old Albic. Correction
Vowel harmony Discussion with Rob Haden; some stuff on early Albic ("Q") vowel phonology. #2
Elvish ideas... Comments on Andreas Johansson's Meghean.
The League of Lost Languages How it all began. More
Machine translation interlinguae Maybe Old Albic is good for that purpose?
Helen Keller & Whorf-Sapir
My answers on the 2005 Lunatic Survey
On nerds and dreamers
Loglang syntax Also, problems with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and "philosophical" languages.
Weird case marking patterns
Defining "Language"
My answers on the 2008 conlang fluency survey
Langmaker and FrathWiki #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
Comments on a non-human language ;-) Transcription
Survival of minority languages - why Albic did not die out.
"Conlang" and "Artlang" in German Translation issues. #2 #3 #4
Phaistos Disk - a fake, an Atlantean artifact, or what? My stance on Atlantis, by the way.
A posteriori conlangs; specifically, Gallo-Hellenic. #2
Sidhe language and elflangs in general. #2 #3 #4 #5 Quenya #2 Elflangs #2
Natlang plausibility in artlanging. Comments on thoughts of Benct Philip Jonsson.
Prepositional phrases as attributes
How do you give reality to an a priori conlang?
Vocab Building Tricks #2
Diachronic conlanging and diachronic linguistics
Oh, noes! Endangered languages! Why conlangers cannot save endangered languages, but it is also not our fault that languages die.
Avoiding unhandled features #2 #3
Your first conlangs - what I did when I was younger.
Alternative timelines: join three projects? #2
Proper Names in a Soundless Language
How to make a mess of an ATL - comments on Ill Bethisad and similar projects. #2 #3 #4 #5
Reconstructing a "lost" language - ideas for a clichéd crackpot-style Atlantean language. #2 #3
Arabic without Islam #2
What would happen to an oligosynthetic language? If subjected to naturalistic language change, that is.
Conlang canons #2
Voynich-like manuscript - an idea for a conlang riddle.
Con-culture/religion etc. Do non-human sapients have religion? Also, some notes on Albic religion. #2 Repugnant concultures Non-human intelligence
Form of Documentation of your Conlang - why the simplest solutions are usually the best.
Broad or narrow usage of "phonology"? - there's more to it than just the phoneme inventory.
Fantasy conlang universals
Sources for vowel quantity distinctions?
Why I conlang
Language adaptation to the environment #2 #3
The colour of Elven blood and other Elven matters. #2 #3 #4
Volapük - why it failed.
Euroclones #2
Genealogical classification of conlangs #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
Importance of good worldbuilding #2
Musical language of aliens #2
Can't we say that a language is always related to a "people"? - on language names.
Neanderthals again #2 #3
Vulcan language - why they shouldn't speak a loglang.
Romanization: digraphs vs. diacritics
The Legionnaires in Oz Lewis and Tolkien #2 #3 #4 #5
Open and closed universes #2 #3
Why alien civilizations are probably hard to detect
Why we don't need another Great Sundering
Purpose of formal logic? #2
Elves #2 #3
Conmusic #2
The Sith language - on linguistic beauty, heavy metal umlauts and some other matters. #2 My LotR opera (which was never composed)
Fanlangs Atlantis #2 #3
Vulcan, and alien names in general #2 #3
Early conlangers
Call for Papers: A Festschrift for Raymond Brown
Ars Glossopoetica - A Festschrift for Raymond Armar Brown #2 #3 #4
Time travel - a comment on a "solution" that implies a negation of free will.
Voynich Manuscript - allegedly deciphered, but the "decipherer" doesn't even get his terminology right! #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 Intersection of conlanging and cryptography communities #10 #11 #12 #13
Western Hellenism #2
Genetics - how much bearing does it have on linguistics? #2 #3
Against the necessity of duality of patterning - even sign languages and logographies have "phonemes". My planned Quetch experiment
Keyboards and homegrown transcriptions
Language invention in Linguistics Pedagogy
An exercse in non-font making - on a script made by Alex Fink.
Unreliablity of "the Internet"
Fun and seriousness #2
What interests some does not interest others - do we need topic tags?
xkcd: Language development
Growing weary of archaeogenetics
A fortiori conlangs and Eurojisnen - just being silly.
Accuracy of Wikipedia
Troy = Atlantis? #2 #3 The Sea Peoples #2
Is mathematics a language?
Deluge theories
LaTeX
"Chicken steel"