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Hi! spad0103 writes: >... > I maybe sounded you having auxlanger or even non-conlanger > arguments... I think it's because the auxlangs were the first > languages I looked after. I found it interesting to simplify > languages like that. But then I was disappointed because I found > there was no "design" in them as you said. > > Then I discovered artlangs, which I found "designed" but I failed in > learning them. > > This double disappointment made me in the trouble with conlangs. Ah, I see. So have you created a language that is 'simple' (whatever that means), yet beautifully crafted, both according to your personal taste? Did you succeeded from your point of view? The design goal of simplification need of course not be for the purpose of creating an auxlang. Some of my conlangs (not romlangs) also simplify grammar extensively, but the goal is a simplification that just feels elegant to me. > As somebody said I had even non-conlanger arguments, like the > "utility" of a conlang... but that's not me! That's what people told > me when they saw my conlang! Well, I am asked what my conlangs are made for by non-conlangers quite often, too. I then tell them that it's like e.g. painting: I create something and then people can have a look at it and like it or, well, not like it. > I love artlangs, I don't want to go to the "Auxlangs" group... ;-) Hehe, ok! > In fact, I've got a different vision of conlangs when I "make" them > than when I "watch" the one of the others. I'm quite lazy, I don't > like spending much time in reading the other's grammar, but when I > make a conlang I like making it look like "me" and I don't like > making a too rigid grammar. That's an artlanger vision! Indeed. :-) And my grammars tend to be too long, because I try to present everything I ever thought about. It is often a documentation for myself that I present to others, if you will. > About the fact of "making" people learning my language, my old dream > is to discuss with loved ones in a conlang I created not to be > understood by other people in public. But it's just a dream, I don't > know anybody who likes conlanging in the real life... Maybe one day!! Hehe! :-) I suppose quite some conlangers have this dream but very few can actually do that. **Henrik