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词汇 conlanger
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Definition of conlanger in English:

conlanger

nounˈkɒnlaŋəˈkänˌlaNGər
  • A person who creates an artificial language.

    many conlangers strive to make their languages as different from European paradigms as possible
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Very few conlangers have mastered their languages in the way one masters a native tongue.
    • One conlanger noted that Yaguello's chapter entitled 'In Defence of Natural Languages' reminded him of the US Federal 'Defense of Marriage Act'.
    • Whether a conlanger has contributed new idioms to Klingon or invented a tongue designed solely to reflect women's consciousness, he or she is expressing an implicit wish to change the world with language.
    • Popularized in the mid-twentieth century, roughly the same time period when conlangers began forming their own communities and interest groups, this hypothesis holds that consciousness is structured by language.
    • Knowing the words is not important to their hearers, but few conlangers yet have that outlet, and must rely on text and graphs to give a sense of their language's structure.
    • A few conlangers have set their languages to music and recorded them.
    • Conlangers tend to be people who are already immersed in specialized forms of symbolic communication.
    • The audio-visual capacities of the Internet, along with its speed and efficiency of communication, have made it the ideal forum for conlangers.
    • Very few conlangers that I have encountered are making private languages in Wittgenstein's sense.
    • Conlangers are now looking to Tagalog, Basque, Georgian, Malagasay, and Aztec for ideas, instead of to Welsh, Finnish, and Hebrew, languages Tolkien drew upon for his Elvish.

Origin

1990s: from conlang.

Definition of conlanger in US English:

conlanger

nounˈkänˌlaNGər
  • A person who creates an artificial language.

    many conlangers strive to make their languages as different from European paradigms as possible
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The audio-visual capacities of the Internet, along with its speed and efficiency of communication, have made it the ideal forum for conlangers.
    • A few conlangers have set their languages to music and recorded them.
    • Whether a conlanger has contributed new idioms to Klingon or invented a tongue designed solely to reflect women's consciousness, he or she is expressing an implicit wish to change the world with language.
    • Popularized in the mid-twentieth century, roughly the same time period when conlangers began forming their own communities and interest groups, this hypothesis holds that consciousness is structured by language.
    • Very few conlangers have mastered their languages in the way one masters a native tongue.
    • Conlangers are now looking to Tagalog, Basque, Georgian, Malagasay, and Aztec for ideas, instead of to Welsh, Finnish, and Hebrew, languages Tolkien drew upon for his Elvish.
    • Very few conlangers that I have encountered are making private languages in Wittgenstein's sense.
    • Conlangers tend to be people who are already immersed in specialized forms of symbolic communication.
    • Knowing the words is not important to their hearers, but few conlangers yet have that outlet, and must rely on text and graphs to give a sense of their language's structure.
    • One conlanger noted that Yaguello's chapter entitled 'In Defence of Natural Languages' reminded him of the US Federal 'Defense of Marriage Act'.

Origin

1990s: from conlang.

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