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Re: Extrapolating languages

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Monday, December 22, 2003, 16:31
In a message dated 2003:12:22 02:31:25 AM, fiziwig@YAHOO.COM writes:

>WOW! An interesting read [http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/futurese.html].
>But that raises a question.
> Could a language be designed in such a way as to >defeat Grimm's law. In other words, is there some >design which, due to its inherent simplicity or >efficienty, would be more resistent to change than a >natlang? > >I.e., does change occur just for the sake of change, >or is there some notion of "striving" toward a "more >perfected" form? And if so, could a more perfected >form be designed which would thus resist change?
The only certainity is uncertainity and change. Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode, orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap... --- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* --- Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, ManglaLanger (mangle + manga + lang) http://www.boheme-magazine.net "Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" - title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter, _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_ = ¡gw3rraa leg0set kaakaa! ¡riis3rvaa, saalvaa, riikuu, sk0paa-g0mii aen riizijkl0! = [Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!]