Re: CHAT: another new language to check out

I went & had a look at Aiola.

Nonrhetorically, I want to ask why people create IALs -- the
question poses itself particularly acutely wrt Aiola when I
see the effort & resources that appear to have gone into it
(judging from what the website says). Presumably IALs are
created mainly for fun, but I don't understand how come
it is fun to create something very similar to innumerable
existing members of the same category. Popular art (pulp
fiction, popular music, B movies) is full of such re-creations,
so clearly the creators do enjoy re-creation, but I don't
understand why. Nor do I understand why IALs are published
with the usual IAL message: "this IAL is the solution to
the usual problems IALs are touted as solutions to, and it
is better than other IALs". (Of Aiola: "Individual features
such as phonetic spelling, marking of parts of speech by word
endings, and word building using prefixes and suffixes are
shared with other natural and constructed languages. What
makes Aiola unique is that it has improved and refined these
features to achieve an unprecedented combination of logical
consistency, low ambiguity, and familiarity.") Is this a kind
of 'Denial' (in psychobabble sense)? -- a kind of elective
blindness to Reason, akin in nature to religious Faith?

The last thing I would want to do is decry the pleasure
someone derives from creating an IAL, or from publishing
it in the usual IAL way, but I find myself not only
perplexed but also distressed/grieved/sorrowed that so much
labour should have been expended to so little avail. Imagine,
as analogy, if a film director spent a decade working on their
magnum opus, and upon completion it turned out to be pretty
similar to Police Academy 38. There's a certain poignancy
to that scenario.

--And.

Replies