proving a conlang?

Intersting. Before Andrew's none-of-yours-conlangs accusation, I was going
to ask if anyone other than myself used children's stories as an early test
of the viability of their conlangs. I do believe the test has two parts,
though: the author translates the story into his/her conlang, then someone
else using the grammar, etc. translates it back. I know my own mind will
fool itself into believe something makes obvious sense only to find that
true only for myself or a select few.

>--
>Long ago, in a quiet village in France, there lived a miller. That miller
>had three sons and two daughters.  The oldest son wanted to become a knight
>one day, but his father had no money to buy a horse.  The middle son wanted
>to become a monk, but the nearest monastery had no room for him.  The
>youngest son didn't know what he wanted to do.  We don't know what the
>daughters wanted, because stories in those days didn't talk about such
>things.
>--

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