Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

Andrew Nowicki <andrew@...> wrote:
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It seems to me that most of the languages discussed
in this mailing list are not languages at all, but
names of languages that exist only in the imagination
of the person who invented the names. I doubt a
language can be used for simple everyday communication
unless it has a vocabulary of at least 1000 words.
Has  anyone in this mailing list made a real conlang?
Making a real language is a huge effort, almost like
building a pyramid. Team work is a necessity, and yet
there is not much team work among the conlangers.
Linux programmers have the opposite mind set - they
love to work together, and often improve work of
others instead of reinventing the wheel. Perhaps the
reason for the difference is that the Linux programs
are tools, while the languages discussed here are as
useful as the pyramids. The main purpose of the
pyramid is to say "My unique pyramid is sky high
and made of white marble. I do not share it with anyone."
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Hi Andrew,
Don't be so harsh on us, because that's being harsh on yourself! :-)
You belong to the conlangers' community. Many of us have experienced a time
of anger or frustration and expressed it on this list. This is only natural
because no one can keep perfectly still and nice everyday for
years--especially not artists :-) We are artists working alone but we team
up sometimes: I designed my lexicon with another conlanger. You may find on
AUXLANG other people interested in making a language like you want. Here on
CONLANG most people believe that a conlang doesn't need to make sense. No
one is required to justify his conlang no more than a painter is required to
justify why and how many paintings he paints. Some of us here are also part
of a logical or auxiliary language program but they don't advertize it AS
SUCH on this list. Believe me and other ones: we do have both the grammars
and the lexicons to express pretty much whatever we want and often in many
different ways. Once you will have designed a conlang with which you can
express yourself, you will have the time and interest to delve into other
conlangers' langs. Their amount of work is amazing! Even as an auxlanger you
may discover there nifty devices you did not think of. :-)