User blog comment:Lamikorda/Styles of Conlanging: An Observation/@comment-3998736-20130518041302

I think this over simplifies a bit; A priori and A posteori and Artistic v. Auxiliary axis which are noted below seem a lot more critical to me.

Anthropology is certainly an aspect, but I think it occurs in any Artistic language given sufficent detail. An Art-lang by definition is something created as a work of art, while this doesn't necessarily entail creating a culture behind it, one usually emerges to some degree or another. Often though, from what I have seen Artlangs emerge as a result of wanting to further flesh out culture.

Phonologist here could refer to a few things; Personally, I think you're refering to sketch-langs by people with some experience playing with langauges. Alteratively, it could be an Auxiliary language person who focuses too much on sound changes and simplification while not making it attractive.

I think the difference here comes down to comfort; It's difficult to use these linguistic terms to introduce conlanging to non-linguists [I was bogged down for months learning it with what I only later figured out was a fairly usable and not overly bizarre grammar] but now that I've learnt some of it, I can gleam most of a language from a quick skim over.

Generally speaking, languages with a lot of care put into them will use the advanced terms and then explain what precisely is meant by them and how it is used with a practical example. Those that don't, are usually either sketch langs or ones still in early stages.

Finally, where Phonologists are people so used to conlanging/linguistics that they can obscure their meaning to beginners by writing up a lot about a language without explaining, Crytographers [admittedly, I haven't seen many on here, but that could be me] are the opposite side of things; they are all enthusiasm but are uncomfortable changing up grammar [possibly due to a lack of experience with other languages]. I find it hard to critique the practice in principle because I think most Cryptographers are either new Conlangers with enthusiasm and creativity but still in the early process of learning or else conlanging is a chore which they don't want to focus on; I can't blame them without admitting I lack the specialized knowledge of the many other fields necessary in creating a whole culture and/or world.