Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

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.

Dan
[1] Taken from Georg Capellanus' "Latin Can be Fun- Facetiae Latinae"

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Ath yw dyned can pob den o rydhad o voenyth, cynanaf â
chraveth.

o Raeth 18 o Gorlavaraed Vethysadec an Dynedad Dyneth

Deiniol Jones



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