Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Starner" <dvdeug@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?


> 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.)
>

I think the most important thing about language is it's flexibility and
ability to add new concepts.  By that token, pheronomes are not languages,
and Conlangs are.

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