Re: Open Source / community based Language

On Thursday 05 December 2002 8:02 pm, you wrote:
> i thinking about a "open source" language, it would be an atempt to see
> what happens when communication happens on a large scale, with the basis
> being that  usr a, mods the lang then usr b also does, what happen to it in
> thir hand what was done that was the same what did they change? how would
> it evolve, if usr a's mod is more accepted that b's, what happen if usr c
> took even a diffrent route? this may be a little more than i can handle :)
> but it would be nice to what happens, as it may provide just a little more
> to ponder when considering language and the human psyche.
>
> This could also be the defineing thing into seeing how languages evolve
> when small groups are involved and isolated from each other,   or how a
> language evolves when used en-masse, with people useing it, and modifiying
> it to thir likeing.
>

I'd expect that's how Language developed.

Someone pointed at a rock and said 'kwe', or something, and someone pointed
at a tree and said 'ra', then everyone gets in on this naming thing, and
eventually, they ascribe words to actions, thus inventing verbs.  Then people
have the bright idea of mixing the two, creating the first languages.  Then
some bright spark fleshes it out a bit more, inventing adjectives.  And,
eventually, after a while, cases, number, and gender get absorbed, creating
inflections, and so on.

That's my theory of language development...

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