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Anyone want to make an lingua franca? (feddit.org)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Never made an international auxlang, nor have I ever collaborated on a conlang project as none of my friends are into linguistics. Thought I’d kill three birds with one stone. Who’s in? I’ll probably use Google Docs, LibreOffice, or one of the many collaborative Markdown editors out there.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Interesting… I remember David J. Peterson gave a talk at Google a while back, and I believe he came to a very similar conclusion. I’ll definitely be using those!

Oh, and LibreOffice isn’t collaborative (yet); I just love the software, lol. It could be a bit of a hassle to use I suppose, but I’ve done it before for a worldbuilding project.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The best options i've found for collaborating on conlangs or worldbuilding are Discord/Revolt/whatever other clone, and Cryptpad or Google Office Suite (spreadsheets might be better than text documents). For presenting the information in a non-collaborative way, just making a simple website isn't very hard. Or a Lemmy community could work, once the language is fleshed out enough for light use. I wonder if anything like PolyGlot for collaborative work exists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hm. Interesting Lemmy community idea. I’ve dabbled with Cryptpad before, but I’m just not as comfortable with the tool as I am with the Google Suite or LibreOffice. Though, I’d be happy to learn it if people preferred :)

I’ve never heard of PolyGlot; I’ll look into it.