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

David J. Peterson scripsit:

> My point was this.   If you define the usability of a language by the number
> of words, then there's no reason why you shouldn't take the grammar of
> English (or whatever language you want) and then just swith a sound in every
> word to come up with a new "language", with the same number of words as
> English and a fully, fleshed-out grammar.
Even better, IMO, is Yoinglish, which also has the advantage that all
declarative sentences are the truth -- it is impossible to lie.
A grammatical declarative sentence in Yoinglish is the same as in English,
except that each sentence must begin with the word "Yoi", the meaning of
which is, of course "It may or may not be true that ..."

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