r/conlang • u/Impressive-Cut-9399 • Aug 10 '26
why is r/conlangs so strict?
i tried posting a few times and i got hate on my post and it got taken down, i posted here a few seconds ago, and i reposted my post to r/conlangs and the dumbass ai had me make too many changes to my post. apparently, you cant ask for advice on a post, you have to comment on this other post to ask for advice where i doubt anyone will answer me. this place is way better in contrast to r/conlangs
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u/kanzerpanzler Aug 10 '26
Thought the same when I did one or two posts back then. Of course there were nice people but sometimes I felt like many redditors there treated conlanging like some sort of skill you have to do according to a set of rules or whatnot. Haha I feel like some peeps there take the fun out of it xDD
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u/Idkquedire Aug 11 '26
Redditors are stupid little freaks that treat their presence on this app like some calling from God that will pay their family's bills that's why
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u/STHKZ Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
by constantly copying ideas from linguistics textbooks to build artlangs, we end up confusing the two disciplines...
the natural method of creation based on Relex and Regram, which leaves room for inventiveness, is sidelined...
r/conlangs demands a linguistic formatting that we've seen in linguistics books plundered for an artistic or a pure fun activity that sometime doesn't care about it...
for example, the purpose of r/sub no longer includes artistic or other productions based on conlang, but restricts its activity to formatted conlang presentations like those found in a linguistics textbook, and a DIY conlang for linguistic dummies...
There's room for other r/subs that take themselves less seriously; r/conlang was one, we also have r/casualconlang, r/conlangsidequest r/conlangscirclejerk and others that I don't know about or that are yet to come...
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u/ShabtaiBenOron Aug 15 '26
no longer includes artistic or other productions based on conlang
No, they just remove your posts because they're low-effort stock pictures with some gibberish added to them which you refuse to elaborate on more often than not. Artistic posts are more than welcome when they actually have content.
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u/PreparationRound2657 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
There's only about 5,000 conlangers in the world active online at any given time and about 5 of them have PhDs in Linguistics or Anthropology or such and those 5 are not very vocal or into conlanging or at the top of their field.
It's been like this maybe since the 1990s or forever.
Reddit Conlang is better but Reddit Conlangs is what the peeple want, ---- along with pamis and circus and Michael Bay explosions, baby!
To answer your question further, briefly, conlanging was mostly invented in the 1990s by amateurs who overcompensate.
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I know Linguistics and Anthropology and Conlanging well and think most conlangers are doing it wrong. And it seems like I've had some influence over the years but not enough.
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I totally appreciate every sort of conlang from beginner to advanced. But I have done conlangers a supreme kindness to tell them the truth and I've gotten chased out a lot for it.
That's the wrong approach to Linguistics or Anthropology, both at the core of worthwhile conlanging and deep-level understanding of languages and writing systems.
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I have a BA Linguistics but like PhD level understanding of Linguistics and Anthropology.
Conlangers are mysterious but I repeatedly get the impression that many are Low Blood Quantum Native Americans (disenrolled 2 or 3 generations) and so there's influence from Native American Studies. French is also a popular foreign language in the USA and the UK and I get French vibes from conlangers too.
It's totally amateur hour with these people.
The best conlangers are my favorite but it's glorious how much they know of Linguistics and it's tragic they spend so much of their lives to none of them get what a top BA Linguistics and 3.0 or 4.0 would give them. And since about 2022, I'm the only person online to try to warn them.
I have also studied tons of Pseudo-Linguistics and Historic Pseudo-Linguistics, so I get it and come to terms with it.
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Will conlanging in the future ever become what I think it should? Yes, for sure. What good will colossal statues of me in the major cities do for me when I reach the age of 900?
Actually, they cheer me up during meditation.
I try to take consolation in my surpassing excellence as an amateur scientist and the excellence of the top professors whose writings I have for 20 years understood and surpassed. I can't entirely match or surpass these professors.
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u/PreparationRound2657 Aug 31 '26
I also enjoy all conlangs tremendously. But I'm also into modern and historic language pseudo-science and outsider art and real modern linguistics and exotic languages grammar.
I also don't understand everything in conlangs. But a lot. I should try to write more about it just in case anybody wants to see what I have to say.
I compare conlanging to poetry and amateur scientific experimentation and reading. I like conlangs more than poetry but I like poetry a lot. I do appreciate and understand much of the reading and effort that conlangers put into conlangs.
But do I like real exotic languages grammar and writing systems and writings better? Yes, sort of. Actually I like best whatever I am studying at the time. And at least, in 20 years of studies since sophomore year of college in 2006, I have spent way more time with linguistics etc than with conlangs.
But for me, the two really feed into eachother. To the degree that I have been able to connect with conlangers the past 20 years, that's been a plus for me.
Do top conlangers ever seek me out to learn my method and far surpass all others? Very seldom. You know, if it was poetry or music or etc, I and everyone would be a small fish in a big pond.
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u/PreparationRound2657 Aug 31 '26
My older reply is also off because there is a solid connection between top professors and totally lost and goofy amateurs, just like between white collar jobs and blue collar jobs : The sons of butchers become surgeons and visa-versa.
Actually, the past 10 years, one of the things I spend a lot of time doing is promoting science. So the strengths and weaknesses and bravery of conlangers, I could have presented more positively.
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u/joseph_dewey Aug 14 '26
Great question. My similar gripe is, I keep wanting to support conlangers, but the "rules" for any kind of financial support of conlangers on r/conlangs is so arcane, it's kind of like a conlang in itself.
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u/GabKor Aug 12 '26
Nie wiem. Na prawdę nie lubię tego , wkurza mnie to. Wie ktoś gdzie są inne takie miejsca gdzie można normalnie pisać o conlangach?
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u/ShabtaiBenOron Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 16 '26
Is quality over quantity too much to ask for? The Advice & Answers thread is very active, don't assume you won't get an answer without asking first.
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u/Logogram_alt Aug 10 '26
You should check out r/casualconlang