Forum:Conlang Featuring

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 Ancient Qâêr   won this months! Check Archive if you want to see discussions and votings of it

 of voting for May 

Discussion
I have to say that Con voting still looks weird to me, esp. Con voting by nominees. Here's how you game the system: pick a language that has no chance of winning, and Con everything but that one and your own. Which is equal to Pro voting for yourself for all practical purposes. Adagio burner 17:24, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hence it is forbidden The Emperor Zelos 17:31, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * ? I vote Con on all but two, mine and someone else's (losing). Or do you mean I would have to pick two losers? I don't think it's going to be difficult either :( Adagio burner 19:20, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * You can vote con on more than one, just not all but your own, atleast 1 else must be non-coned The Emperor Zelos 19:50, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * Zelos, you don't seem to have read the above. Let me repeat: I vote con on all but my own plus some language that is bound to lose. The result is equivalent to self-vote. Adagio burner 20:13, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * What is the problem here? You voted on all but yours and one more, then you did fine The Emperor Zelos 20:39, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * That is equivalent to self-voting. Then, why ban self-vote? I hate (and won't be) playing the con game, it feels dirty, trying to find flaw in every one's creation. Adagio burner 20:46, April 29, 2010 (UTC)

Nominations:
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 of nominating for May 

Nomination Rules

 * 1) The language must have the banner translated or be in a stage where it can be done by anyone
 * 2) Conlangs may be re-nominated for another go after having won when 3 weeks have passed

Nominating

 * Quai'op: It's a little shallow to nominate myself, but I thought I would use this opportunity to present my language to the community, whether or not I'm voted in. The pro's of my language include unique and simple grammar, pleasing and easy-to-pronounce phonology, natural feel, and a little bit of culture (and history). I think it could be used in the future because it is highly efficient and easy to learn, even with few phonemes. Right now I am working on the dictionary so it should be ready soon. –Detectivekenny
 * It isnt shallow, it is in accordance witht he rules and perfectly fine The Emperor Zelos 13:11, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * Chathan: I nominate Chathan, my a posteriori Germanic conlang for the following reasons: ease of pronunciation, logical orthography and grammar, fairly well-developed Teutonic lexicon with cognates rendered in a consistent fashion, and arguably resemblant of certain natural Germanic languages in writing and speech while retaining its own identity. It should be especially easy to learn by native speakers of Dutch, Afrikaans, German, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and the Frisian tongues. –Isaac Bonewits
 * Please translate the feature banners text or the nomination willl be nullified The Emperor Zelos 07:05, April 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. --Isaac Bonewits 20:52, April 30, 2010 (UTC)Isaac Bonewits
 * Issac, when funishing your message add ~ to sign it, and good The Emperor Zelos 17:51, April 30, 2010 (UTC)

Voting Rules
To make things clear, you can start voting before the 21st and until the last day (28th) change the votings whenever your heart so pleases. You will vote con or pro for a language, you don't have to do both, if you think it has only con then you vote con and describe why its con or pro. The rules will be these thought:
 * 1) Self voting does not count to the total (There are far too few of us to dilute the effect).
 * 2) Pro vote on oneself is self vote
 * 3) Con vote on everyone else is self vote
 * 4) You may vote cons on all but one as a non-nominee, as nominee it is all but two. Pro votes may go to all but ones own conlang
 * 5) Unregistered voters don't count, but are welcome to post comments and such.
 * 6) Try voting what you think looks best in accordance to these criterias.
 * 7) Realistic, it looks as if it could be real
 * 8) Goal, it reaches the goal it is meant to fullfill, if it intends being universal judge it in accordance, if it tries being natural judge it in accordance.
 * 9) Completeness, how close is it to completion?
 * 10) Bots (ZeBot and Fakultinj) cannot vote at all.

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