Re: The Language Code, take 2 (or 3)

Dirk Elzinga scripsit:

> I'm asserting that such a language does not exist; all languages will
> cluster at one end or the other. That being the case, the continuum
> really isn't one, and the dichotomy between constructed and
> natural/ethnic is a real one.
I think that weird written concoctions like Nissaya Burmese (Burmese
morphemes, Pali syntax) and Iberian Notarial Latin (aka Leonese Vulgar
Latin, with Latin morphology and syntax but with spelling reflecting
Old Ibero-Romance) arguably occupy the middle ground.

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