Re: Seeming hostility to conlang scripts?

On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 9:46 PM Michael De Roover <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, 10 June 2026 04:37:07 Central European Summer Time David Starner
> wrote:
> > Perhaps if you learned about conlangs from this thread, you shouldn't
> > be telling us about them. Conlangs vary quite a bit, and those under
> > discussion were artistic challenges, not academic challenges. Your
> > boxing of programming languages seems pretty narrow as well, ignoring
> > a world of special purpose programming language and the various ways
> > languages do or do not evolve.
>
> I do not challenge the notion that I am unfamiliar with conlangs, and I am not
> a linguist either. However, as someone who does day-to-day work encoding what
> would otherwise remain artistic endeavors, I will challenge your doubt towards
> my presence here as pretentious.

I didn't doubt your presence here; merely that you were describing
conlangs to people who have studied them, created them, and used them.

> Unless you are as intimately familiar with
> esolangs, you should refrain from making such needlessly inflammatory
> statements.

Esolangs are really neither here nor there, but I am impressed by your
justification of speaking from ignorance and claiming authority by
experience.

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