On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 8:23 PM, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg@googlemail.com> wrote:
> It seems important to me to have some sort of rule which ensures consistency
> wrt artificial languages. Otherwise it will give reason to all sorts of
> unnecessary complaints.

I suppose that we will have in the near future a number of well
elaborated constructed languages, no matter if their intention would
be fun or taking role as a language for more useful, more likely
particular than general purpose. (For example, Slovio is interesting,
as it requires writers educated in Slovio, but non-educated native
Slavic speakers to read it; but it has copyright issues.)

Counting that there are no copyright and similar issues, I would
define it approximately in the following way: To be considered as
eligible, a constructed language has to have:

1) a clear communication purpose (i.e. the intention of creation the
language is not to make an art piece more elaborated, but to be used
as a mean for communication; Klingon, Quenya and Dothraki would pass
just with the native speakers OR with the post factum change of the
intention and creation of relevant support for that language, which
makes them a "regular" constructed language; I could imagine Klingon
could pass based on the last rule);

2) full basic dictionary;

3) a method for creative usage (i.e. creating the new words; somebody
has to be able to create an article about quantum mechanics in that
language, no matter if that language doesn't have those words
initially); if it doesn't allow users to create the new words, it has
to have a body which would promptly deal with the needs to write an
encyclopedia;

4) (add your requirement here; I suppose Michael, Jan and Andre could help here)

5) Additionally, that should be verified by at least two linguists
chosen by LangCom (this is a general linguistic task; unlike in the
case of verifying the content, a linguist verifying the *language*
doesn't need to speak the language).

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