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added by Adam Miller Feb 21 '17 at 17:20

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added by cedh Aug 20 '16 at 8:37

closed as off topic by Robert Cartaino Jan 27 '17 at 17:58

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.

This proposal is about to undergo a final review. This site is about the methods of creating constructed languages, so for the purpose of defining this proposal and the final review, self-defining questions like "what is a conlang?" and "where can I learn how to make one?" doesn't really help define the scope of this site. – Robert Cartaino Jan 27 '17 at 17:57

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added by Ken Graham Oct 29 '16 at 14:27

Source of quote can be found here: Ithkuil – Ken Graham Oct 29 '16 at 14:30

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added by Ada Lovelace Jan 17 '17 at 20:44

closed as off topic by Robert Cartaino Jan 27 '17 at 18:06

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.

This is more about language acquisition than the subject of constructed languages – Robert Cartaino Jan 27 '17 at 18:06

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added by CHEESE Oct 31 '16 at 23:03

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added by Luís Henrique Feb 14 '17 at 9:52

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added by Ken Graham Jul 24 '16 at 22:08

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added by rtpax Oct 24 '16 at 23:40

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added by user289661 Mar 2 '17 at 0:50

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added by michau Oct 22 '16 at 21:16

closed as duplicate of Where can I find some good sources the Elfish language in its spoken form? by Robert Cartaino Jan 27 '17 at 18:32

This question covers exactly the same ground as another question in this proposal.

This proposal is about to undergo a final review, so for the purpose of defining the scope of this proposal, pruning out closely-related questions helps assure we have a sufficient breadth of subject matter to actually create this site. – Robert Cartaino Jan 27 '17 at 18:32

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added by хебеен Dec 3 '16 at 13:14

closed as not a real question by Jan, хебеен, Robert Cartaino Jan 27 '17 at 18:04

It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.

This question is kind of broad, on the actual site I think this question should be more specific. +1 still! – rtpax Dec 9 '16 at 21:32

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added by Miles Rout Jan 4 '17 at 3:16

closed as duplicate of Where can I find a tutorial on how to create a language? [closed] by Robert Cartaino Jan 27 '17 at 18:07

This question covers exactly the same ground as another question in this proposal.

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added by Miles Rout Jan 4 '17 at 3:16

What do you mean by "successful"? By successful you could mean a bunch of different things. Do you mean that the example language produced a number of books describing it? That it went to cinema? That there is a real intention to use it as an auxiliary language? That any given population percentage can speak it? That it is complete? That it is in active development? That it has achieved popular or academic approval? That it is used in real life? So, again, what do you mean by successful? Just for clarification to other people to come. – Tanatarca Jan 18 '17 at 9:41

@Tanatarca Clarification would be in the question description if the question were asked. – Miles Rout Jan 18 '17 at 22:09

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added by rtpax Jan 20 '17 at 0:34

Really unclear. Definition of what? – Min4Builder Jan 23 '17 at 14:12

Definition of a language. Is that the only unclear part, or is there something else I ought to clarify? – rtpax Jan 23 '17 at 15:34

I'm interested to hear why whoever downvoted believes that this question would not be a good fit/well designed question for this site – rtpax Jan 30 '17 at 23:01

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added by kristan Aug 11 '16 at 23:05

closed as duplicate of Where can I find some good sources the Elfish language in its spoken form? by Robert Cartaino Jan 27 '17 at 18:32

This question covers exactly the same ground as another question in this proposal.

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added by хебеен Dec 11 '16 at 10:09

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added by Miles Rout Jan 4 '17 at 3:19

closed as duplicate of Which syntactic features are overused in constructed languages? by Robert Cartaino Jan 27 '17 at 18:12

This question covers exactly the same ground as another question in this proposal.

	This proposal is about to undergo a final review, so for the purpose of defining the scope of this proposal, pruning out closely-related questions helps assure we have a sufficient breadth of subject matter to actually create this site. – Robert Cartaino Jan 27 '17 at 18:12
	How is a question about *phonolog* features a duplicate of a question about *syntactic* features? – Luís Henrique Jan 29 '17 at 9:35

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added by Miles Rout Jan 4 '17 at 3:20

What do you mean by "overused"? Sounds ambiguous and opinion-based. – Dan Getz Jan 4 '17 at 6:40

What's wrong with questions being opinion-based? Every stack exchange has its own rules for what questions are appropriate, and a Q&A site about an hobby that is inherently creative is going to have a lot of subjective questions. – Miles Rout Jan 4 '17 at 21:05

@MilesRout I'm not talking about opinion-based questions in general, but about your example question in particular. Could you clarify what it's asking, and what makes it answerable? – Dan Getz Jan 4 '17 at 22:30

I'm not really sure how it's unclear. What syntactic features are overused in constructed languages? Nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment would be an example of something that is arguably overused in conlangs, when there are other ways of doing it (that are rare in indo-european languages). – Miles Rout Jan 5 '17 at 2:57

+1 Good question, see nothing wrong with it – Min4Builder Jan 23 '17 at 14:11

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