Re: Real Conlangs Here, Made-to-Order!

> > Would it be desirable to run the language-making program round
> > the clock and have it post its new languages on the web at a
> > rate of, say, one language per hour?
>
>As a totally different twist on where this thread is heading, how much
>help is it to have a wide variety of languages available? My one
>conlang-to-be is purely a Germanic tongue, so anything outside of
>that area is of little help. Is having books on Lenâpé or Lau*
>available at hand or on the web a great help, or mostly irrelevant?
Whereas my reply to Andrew's scenerio of a programming runnning round the
clock was flippant, to my mind, artficial quantity created within
preconceived parameters is of little real use. If one day we were to create
truly creative & sentient programs which could conceive of and design
communication in new & unique languages, I feel at best they would serve to
outline the limits of human consciousness.

For me, the more variety of languages (nat, con, art or aux) to which I'm
exposed, and the thus the potential for new ways of perception &
communication, the closer I come to understanding human communication and
humanity in general.

Relevance is something we each must evaluate. No, my study of languages
won't stop wars itself, fix the hole in the ozone layer, repopulate the
disappearing amphibians.

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