Re: THEORY: Question about the evolution of language

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Of course, l'Abbe de l'Epee must have found inspiration
> somewhere, but he invented all the structure of the FSL, so I think we
> can call it a conlang.
Hmm, probably a mixture of what you said and what John said, then.  I'd
guess that it was probably based on homesigns.  AFAIK, there's not much
French-like grammar to it, which would, I'd think, be the case if it was
totally invented.  In fact, I'd think that he'd've attempted to make it
a sort of "Exact Signed French".

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