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[[File:Smileyaward.png|thumb|right| | [[File:Smileyaward.png|thumb|right|The Smiley Award curly smiley.]] | ||
The '''Smiley Award''' was created by [[w:David J. Peterson|David J. Peterson]] in June 2006 and is awarded to a created language that has caught his eye within the past year. It carries no reward or physical prize, only being mentioned at his homepage.<ref name= "smiley home">[http://dedalvs.conlang.org/smileys/ The Smiley Award, Dedalvs' homepage]</ref> | The '''Smiley Award''' was created by [[w:David J. Peterson|David J. Peterson]] in June 2006 and is awarded to a created language that has caught his eye within the past year. It carries no reward or physical prize, only being mentioned at his homepage.<ref name= "smiley home">[http://dedalvs.conlang.org/smileys/ The Smiley Award, Dedalvs' homepage]</ref> | ||
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The first official Smiley Award was announced on the first Monday of June in 2006. Although the intention was to present the award every year on the first Monday of June, unanticipated events made the date less definite. As of approximately 2011 it is stated that: "''the Smiley award will be given out some time during the calendar year in which it's supposed to be awarded''".<ref name= "smiley home"/> | The first official Smiley Award was announced on the first Monday of June in 2006. Although the intention was to present the award every year on the first Monday of June, unanticipated events made the date less definite. As of approximately 2011 it is stated that: "''the Smiley award will be given out some time during the calendar year in which it's supposed to be awarded''".<ref name= "smiley home"/> | ||
The criteria are as follows: | The criteria stated by David Peterson are as follows: | ||
# Smileys are given out to languages, families of languages, or language projects (not language creators). | # Smileys are given out to languages, families of languages, or language projects (not language creators). | ||
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# The language must be a language, or something similar. | # The language must be a language, or something similar. | ||
# One language cannot win more than one Smiley (though one language creator may). | # One language cannot win more than one Smiley (though one language creator may). | ||
# The winner will be a language that, for one reason or another, makes | # The winner will be a language that, for one reason or another, makes [him] smile. | ||
It must be noted that all varieties of conlangs are acceptable as candidates for the award. Peterson will accept nominations for Smiley Awards, self-nomination is discouraged. The best way to bring a language to his attention would be to post it in the Conlang listserv or to wait for him to find it on the web. | It must be noted that all varieties of conlangs are acceptable as candidates for the award. Peterson will accept nominations for Smiley Awards, self-nomination is discouraged. The best way to bring a language to his attention would be to post it in the Conlang listserv or to wait for him to find it on the web. | ||
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Below is a list of the winners of the Smiley Award, listed in inverse chronological order: | Below is a list of the winners of the Smiley Award, listed in inverse chronological order: | ||
* 2020: [[Verdurian]], by Mark Rosenfelder. | |||
* 2019: [[Fith]], by Jeffrey Henning. | |||
* 2018: [[Tapissary]], by Steven Travis. | |||
* 2017: [[Idrani]], by Trent Pehrson. | |||
* 2016: [[Ilaini]], by Irina Rempt. | |||
* 2015: [[Kash]], by Roger Mills. | * 2015: [[Kash]], by Roger Mills. | ||
* 2014: [[Skerre]], by Doug Ball. | * 2014: [[Skerre]], by Doug Ball. | ||
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* 2007: [[Teonaht]], by Sally Caves. | * 2007: [[Teonaht]], by Sally Caves. | ||
* 2006: [[Kalusa]], by Gary Shannon. | * 2006: [[Kalusa]], by Gary Shannon. | ||
== Remarks by language == | |||
=== Kalusa === | |||
{{Quote|text='''Kalusa''' is probably the single most entertaining language creation game that exists. Translation relays are fantastic, but they require a lot of effort, and take a lot of time.[...] Most of all, it's fun to sit down at the computer every few hours to discover that the Kalusa language has changed in some significant way. In my opinion, it's been an incredibly successful collaborative language experiment thus far, and I hope to see it grow far into the future.|sign=''David J. Peterson''|source=Smiley Award}} | |||
=== Teonaht === | |||
{{Quote|text=Early '''Teonaht''' could easily have been written off as a phase, and no one would have thought twice about it. In fact, Sally herself could have written off Teonaht each time her knowledge of language expanded, as I did with my first language, but she didn't. Teonaht not only survived, it flourished. And consider that Sally grew up well before the days of the internet. Someone like me (and anyone from here on out) will never know what it's like to be a language creator in a bubble.[...] it would have been absurdly easy and understandable if Sally had abandoned Teonaht at pretty much any point in time in her life. But she didn't. Not college, not grad. school, not a career, nothing kept Sally from living her life with Teonaht. In my eyes, it's nothing short of inspiring.|sign=''David J. Peterson''|source=Smiley Award}} | |||
===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}} | |||
=== Kēlen === | |||
{{Quote|text=I suppose if one had to categorize ['''Kēlen'''] 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}} | |||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
[[Category:Conlangery]] | |||