Re: Conlanging as a personal thing

 --- Mike Ellis skrzypszy:

> > On a sidenote: I don't know how many conlangs have ever reached the level
> > of full communicability, but I would be surprised if there were more than,
> > say, ten.
>
> What would "full" communicability be?
Simple: if you can have reasonably long conversation by e-mail (or telephone,
for that matter) without having to create new words. I'm mean, if you want to
write: "I just received your letter and found it very interesting", and have to
create five new words for that, than a language is clearly not ready for
communication yet.
But don't ask me how many words a language must have to be communicable in this
way. Some will say 2 000, others will argue 5 000 or even 10 000.

One possible solution BTW would be that both writers are equally entitled to
create new words. In such case, the language would become a true group project.

Jan

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