Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

Bhac Dan Jones <devobratus@...> le scríobh chugam:
>
> Andrew Nowicki wrote:
> > J> I think the most important thing about language
> > J> is it's flexibility and ability to add new concepts.
> > J> By that token, pheronomes are not languages,
> > J> and Conlangs are.
> >
> > Latin does not change, so according to you it is not
> > a language.
>
> Yes it does. Consider: nuper autogyro Aquas Sulis volavi[1] "recently I
> flew by helicopter to Bath". The Romans obviously didn't have helicopters,
> so the language must have changed in some way during the intervening
> centuries so that we can discuss helicopters now. Ergo, Latin does change,
> q.e.d.
That, and `Latin' is still spoken today, only it's called French, Castillian,
Italian, Rumanian, Ladin, ...

K.

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