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===Ithkuil=== | ===Ithkuil=== | ||
{{Quote|text='''Ithkuil''' isn't so much a language as it is a monument to human ingenuity and design. Over a quarter century in the making, Ithkuil is a complete language (a daunting task, as any conlanger knows), and a remarkable achievement. It's the outcome of a specific set of design goals that have been satisfactorily realized. I mean, wow! That's pretty incredible in and of itself. [...] The website that John has created for Ithkuil is a model for all language creators to follow, and a gift to the language creation community. It's clear, readable, organized well, filled with examples (each with an orthographic, romanized, schematic and translated variant—and many with an audio file attached. It's funny: when you tell someone else that you've created a language, the first thing they want to hear is what it sounds like, and yet many of us create, essentially, written languages that sound alien to their creators when spoken with gusto!), and is appropriately redundant. It really allows the uninitiated to fully grasp what Ithkuil is, which is something that many of our websites (I can think of an example or two) fail to do.|sign=''David J. Peterson''|source=Smiley Award}} | {{Quote|text='''Ithkuil''' isn't so much a language as it is a monument to human ingenuity and design. Over a quarter century in the making, Ithkuil is a complete language (a daunting task, as any conlanger knows), and a remarkable achievement. It's the outcome of a specific set of design goals that have been satisfactorily realized. I mean, wow! That's pretty incredible in and of itself. [...] The website that John has created for Ithkuil is a model for all language creators to follow, and a gift to the language creation community. It's clear, readable, organized well, filled with examples (each with an orthographic, romanized, schematic and translated variant—and many with an audio file attached. It's funny: when you tell someone else that you've created a language, the first thing they want to hear is what it sounds like, and yet many of us create, essentially, written languages that sound alien to their creators when spoken with gusto!), and is appropriately redundant. It really allows the uninitiated to fully grasp what Ithkuil is, which is something that many of our websites (I can think of an example or two) fail to do.|sign=''David J. Peterson''|source=Smiley Award}} | ||
=== Kēlen === | |||
{{Quote|text=I suppose if one had to categorize it it would be an engelang, but unlike most engelangs I've seen, whose descriptions are usually about three hundred times the size of its vocabulary, Kēlen has the life and vibrancy of a full-fledged artlang. Take the relational se, for example. In fact, go here right now, scroll down a little more than halfway, and take a look at the conjugation (for lack of a better word) of ''se''. That's not something a typical engelang does. [...] Sylvia's got a ton of information on Kēleni culture and society, a description of the Kēlen calendar, this crazy divination thing that I don't really get but really like to look at (it has a button you can press, and stuff happens when you press it!), not one, not two, but ''three'' scripts, a translation of an utterly intolerable prose passage, an online dictionary that immediately makes me want to stop using it and do something else because I'm so jealous of how well the freaking thing works and so frustrated with my feeble attempts to try to create something that's even half as good as it, and tons more!|sign=''David J. Peterson''|source=Smiley Award}} | |||
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