> Philip Newton wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 19:01, deinx nxtxr <deinx.nxtxr@...>
>> wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>>> Even Sindarin or Quenya could be
>>>>>> expanded to serve as an auxlang if UN so wished it (now there's
>>> an
>>>>>> interesting alternative history ;)
>>>>> I have seen such proposals at least for Quenya.
>>>> That doesn't surprise me one bit.
>>> Me neither given that Klingon has been brought up too. The only
>>> problem with these are they are artistic creations so not really
>>> designed to be easy to learn and use.
>>
>> Heh. Wasn't Klingon even specifically designed to be "unnatural" from
>> the point of view of "common" Earth languages? (For example, in having
>> odd gaps in its phoneme grid, and an unusual word order; possibly
>> other things, too.)
>
> So was Loglan and, hence, Lojban :)
>
> James Cooke Brown's wanted to create a language that would be
> _different_ from "common" earth languages! The idea was to see if a
> language with a different structure from normal natlangs would influence
> thought (which is what the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis says it should do) -
> so he choose clausal form logic as a model.
>
> Nevertheless, despite its 'innaturalness' many people do seriously
> propose Lojban as an auxlang. It seems unnaturalness is not per_se a
> hindrance to the advocacy of a language as an auxlang. Indeed, SolReSol,
> which had quite a vogue at one time, doesn't exactly conform to the
> 'natural' mold :)
>
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