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/r/minlangs is one year old!
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I was busy yesterday, so I almost missed the anniversary. I for one am proud that such a niche sub still has activity from multiple people, and as of writing 118 subscribers. That being said, it's about 2-4 relatively active users at any given time. So I have some ideas:

  • Let people know this sub exists (when relevant)! We get a bunch of new subscribers every time it's mentioned it seems, so the demand is there.
  • If you've been a lurker, don't be shy! We can use more content, even for wildly unfinished languages like my own.

I'm also thinking of starting a series of discussion posts for semantic factoring, or rethinking concepts in simpler terms. It's like a language-neutral translation challenge. Basically, I (or anyone else) would list some related words (very most likely English) that we can try to rephrase. For example, if the list is

  • star
  • planet
  • moon
  • satellite
  • galaxy

and I was answering, I'd borrow the concept of a "moon", specifically as "a body orbiting another", and try to approximate (at least some of) the old concepts in the first list:

  • "moon" = a body orbiting another
  • planet ~ "moon" of star
  • moon ~ "moon" of planet
  • satellite ~ artificial "moon"
  • galaxy ~ thing with stars as "moons"

There are other directions we can take with this (like differentiating things made of gas vs stone so we can (re)define "star"), but that should paint a picture. Participants could also add to the list, so it would be like a discussion and help everyone practice this skill for improving their minlangs.

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