Re: conlang no longer?

Andrew Strader sekalge:
> Is it possible that once a conlang is taken into use and allowed to
change
> according to the whim of the one or more people using it, it eventually
gets
> to a point where you could no longer call it a conlang?
I'd say that it will always be a constructed language. However, once it
has changed enough, I would no longer call it the original language (and
would start with old whatever, modern whatever), and eventually it would
become commonplace enough that people would no longer think of its
construction.

That would probably take a couple of generations from the time of its
widespread use. It would have to be used in one area and probably no
other (except in limited amounts, like a foreign language).

Anyway, to answer your question, the original will always be a conlang,
but the modern version can be a [pseudo]natlang.

Christopher Wright

http://tureklago.tripod.com/langs.html

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