Re: Reinventing NATLANGs

On 7/7/06, Damien Perrotin <erwan.arskoul@...> wrote:

> As for Esperanto, I suppose many conlangers toyed with it (I did) but I
> am unsure about how many can actually use it (I can't). From a
> conlanging point of view, Esperanto is rather dull. Nobody knows for
Esperanto is one of those languages whose true spiffiness doesn't
become apparent until you have learned enough to attain some
little fluency, and see how people are actually using it.  The contrast
between the apparently tame and conventional descriptions of the
language and the way it's used in practice is something that makes
it far from dull, even from a conlanging point of view.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.esperanto-atlanta.org