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Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

From:David Starner <dvdeug@...>
Date:Saturday, April 26, 2003, 20:55
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 01:25:56PM -0700, william drewery wrote:
> Anyway, here's my two cents: I'm not sure > insectoid use of pjeremones constitutes any language, > because there is no information content. Nothing is > expressed. The insect behavior is simply modified, but > there is no "thought".
So if there were humans sending out the insect pheremones to each other, it would be language? I think part of my definition of language would have to mention that the number of sentences - of communicatable ideas - is not finite. (It is, however, countable.) -- David Starner - dvdeug@email.ro Ic sæt me on anum leahtrice, ða com heo and bát me!

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