Re: Conlanging and Natlangs

AcadonBot wrote:
> Some English speakers use the [x] for "loch." Many do
> not.
Right, because Old English used [x] (as an allophone of /h/, IIRC), but
by now, many dialects have lost that sound, spontaneously, no one said
"We should drop all [x]'s"!

> Some have no [Z]
Are you sure?  What about words like "Asia", even from people who say
/bejdZ/ I hear /ejZ@/

> But if human consciousness is natural, why can't it be
> one of the "elements" involved.
It can, but conscious change tends to be VERY minor, a few things like
the way that many (but by no means all) dialects have lost "double
negatives" due to education.

> Did Shakespere have no effect on spoken English?
Of course he did, but that doesn't mean that Shakespeare "invented" or
"constructed" English, he merely made a few minor changes (mostly, if
not entirely, in vocabulary and a few idioms) to an already existing
language.

> > >Hebrew came back from the dead -- reorganized by
> > >planners.
Actually, Hebrew was never completely dead.  It was used by Jews
throughout Europe, especially to communicate with Jewish communities in
other nations.

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