On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:53 AM, And Rosta <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Both SIL's answer (No) and Dana/Deinx's ("conlang community should organize
> its own" [job for LCS?]) seem to me to be the Right Answers, i.e. the
> answers that somebody with an appreciation of natural languages, of
> empirical linguistics and of conlanging would prefer.

FWIW, SIL's answer to Sonja was that they (or rather the person they
asked from LINGUIST-L) thought it was a fad rather than that they
objected a priori; they said to ask again in a few years if it was
still going.

It'd at least be *possible* for LCS to do this. ISO 639-2 has two
private use ranges: qaa~qtz-* and x-*; we could for instance set up
some simple scheme that uses subtags of x- and ask everyone to use it.
(x-cl-art/aux/eng-conlant_name-dialect_name perhaps?)

I think the more academic sorts amongst us could comment better than I
though whether this'd be useful, a good idea, or even something that
needs registration. Does it come up much that either it's ambiguous
how to name a language, or there are name collisions? These seem the
only reasons to have codes, to me, and I doubt they're likely for
conlangs.

- Sai