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

David J. Peterson wrote:

DJP> Also, one word on vocabulary.  You can choose any number
DJP> of words you want, and the judgment of whether one can
DJP> use it conversationally is totally dependent on the words
DJP> the correspondant uses.  For example, I now have a random
DJP> word generator (thanks to Josh Brandt-Young, who is awesome!

There are computer programs which make music, so I will not be
surprised if a computer program makes grammar and vocabulary
of a language. I could not distinguish such a computer-generated
language from a language made by a human artist. The only
exception are philosophical languages. The compound words of
these languages are descriptions, so the language-making
computer would have to know as much about the world as we do.

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?

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