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Re: Conlanging and Natlangs

From:Jim Grossmann <steven@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 18, 2000, 4:12
Hi, Eli,

You've made point that forces me to change some of my claims.   I should be
embarassed, in fact.   My own Goesk is based on languages that have evolved
spontaneously.   Still, this doesn't change these facts:  most languages
evolve spontaneously and invented languages undergo unplanned changes after
a sufficiently large population uses them for daily spoken communication.
Those are the points that I needed to emphasize.   As for Hebrew, I will
leave it to philosophers to debate whether Ben Yehuda's language qualified
as a pidgin when it started out.

Jim

> Brithenig is based entirely on languages which spontaneously evolved, but > I don't think anyone would argue that it is not a conlang, if a conlang of > a specialized sort. > > ___ > )_|_) Eli Naeher - enaeher@emma.troy.ny.us > )__|__) > )___|___) "A whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard." > \-,__|_,---/ --Herman Melville > \________/