--- On Sun, 4/22/12, mert köseoğlu <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I want to share a project idea with you. Since Lingua Ignota, conlanging
> has become a trend.

It is simply human nature to play around with the things we experience or
conceive of in our world. Language is just one of those things.

> With years, conlangs became personal and their quality increased but the
> amount of their learners decreased,

With the exception of the auxlang craze of the 19th and very early 20th
centuries, conlangs in general have never had many learners. The earlier
philosophical conlangs were principally the domain of the intelligentsia;
modern conlangs are the domain of the individual artist or language
engineer.

Auxlangs, such as your proposed, are also largely the domain of the
individual -- not many people are as interested in them as viable means of
communication as they once were. The People have spoken, and they have
chosen an international auxiliary language, but it doesn't happen to be
one of the artificially created ones.

> because there are lots of conlangs in the area and their domain includes > just a few people.The exceptions may be Esperanto and Klingon, but after
> that, what? That's because there's a lack of unity.

So?

> Unity as in politics and social life is really important at this point
> too.

Not at all. I have absolutely NO interest in foisting my conlangs on an
unsuspecting world and advertising them as the "ideal" or "unifying"
auxlang. I do this simply because I like to play with the sounds, forms
and meanings of words and ideas within the sphere of language. Most of us
hereabouts do it for this or similar reasons.

There are people that, like you, seek the grail of "political unity"
through language.

> To create an Ideal Conlang, we need a  committee and serious and
> efficient people like you. 

I'm going to stop you here, because you're moving beyond the general scope
of what we do here. This forum is in general for the discussion of
constructed languages, *NOT* for the politics or rhetoric of the auxlang
movement. I would ask you to very kindly move *ALL* such politicking over
to the Auxlang list, which is the appropriate place for such discussion:

http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A0=AUXLANG

We don't do committees; we don't do "ideal"; we don't do "easy to learn" or
any of the other catchphrases you hear from auxlang propagandists. We do
what we find to be aesthetically pleasing and perhaps even linguistically
sound. We don't worry about whether anyone else takes notice of our work;
we don't care if anyone finds our languages easy or devilishly hard to
learn. We don't care about ideals so much as about passion and artistic
outlet.

Therefore, I strongly recommend you to describe and discuss your new
language here! -- we love to hear about conlangs, points of grammar,
curious usage, syntactical and lexical shifts and all of that stuff. What
we don't really want to hear about is your ideas on supposed idealism and
perfection and, ultimately, the superiority of your language. That's not
welcome here.

(snip)

> Do you want to take a share in this project? I will be waiting for your
> replies.

No.

Nothing personal -- I have zero interest in expending my creativity or
energy in such a politically charged environment. Again, I ask you *not*
to bring that aspect of your project into this place. I gave you the link
to Auxlang, which is the appropriate place for such things.

>Cheers
>Mert Köseoğlu

Cheers for your language! if not for the politics...

Padraic