Re: Conlang and like influences NATLANG

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> There are border cases like Classical Latin, but if you want examples
> from a fully fledged conlang that didn't start out by pretending to be
> the prestige dialect of a natlang, I don't think there's going to be
> much besides your own example.
Well, if you count that, then Formal English (which is also
semi-artificial) has certainly influenced colloquial English as well.
Double negatives used to be a very common thing in English, until They
said it was wrong.  Now, I don't never use no double negatives.  ;-)
Actually, the only double negative I can think of in my idiolect is "no
X, no Y, no nothing" and, occasionally, "hardly" with a negative (at
least, that's traditionally CALLED a double negative, it doesn't seem
like it to me)

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