Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

>>We could go to an extreme and say that
>>release of a pheromone attracting the
>>opposite sex of an insect species is a
>>language. We need many terms to describe
>>many kinds of languages.
>
>You didn't answer the question.
That would have limited his ability to expand the scope of his argument.

Personally, I don't find a unmodifiable pheremones used to single express
1. I/we need to mate now.
2. I'm/we're going to attack you now.
3. I've/we've found food, follow me/us.
to comprise a language, though I have read at least one thesis dealing
hypothetically with the benefits/disadvantages of a phermonic language.

And yes, before anyone says it, I know that dances of colony bees can
indicate more information - e.g. direction, distance and quantity of food.
I'm not an apiarist (apiologist? apiary entomologist), so I can't speak the
limits of variablity within it (thought _Language and Species_ by Derek
Bickerton is one attempt to do so).




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