Re: Seeming hostility to conlang scripts?

Fair.  And yes, there is a requirement that "usage" be by a sufficiently 
large group of people and not just a pair of pen-pals, etc, and it 
should be more than endless educational material, etc.  But I think 
that's a little different from saying that "topic X doesn't count as 
important usage."  (it's different when topic X is the script itself, 
nothing but talking about itself.)

~mark

On 5/31/26 1:27 PM, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
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>> Second of all, since when are we in the business of critiquing the
>> *content* of what people choose to write?  Do we insist on a certain
>> base level of sophistication of literature?
> SEW and UTC do tend to require that a proposal to add a script include examples of text written in that script, not just a list of letters, and usually not just written by the script’s creator. So there is at least some judgment applied to the scope of use of the script. Whether that extends to scripts invented for fantasy, which are then used to write content unrelated to that fantasy environment, is a finer question that only they could answer.
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