Re: OT: What makes a good conlang? (was Re: Super OT: Re: CHAT: JRRT)

Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

>Ebisedian represents a language from a *very* alien universe,
>thus one should not expect it to look like a plausible human
>language.  Ithkuil is an engelang (or at least that is what I
>understand it to be), and doesn't really attempt to represent
>a possible natlang.
>
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You're quite correct. In fact, to quote directly from the Introduction on
the Ithkuil website:  "...[Ithkuil] is by no means intended to function as
a “natural” human language. Ithkuil exists as an exercise in how human
languages *could* function, not as human languages *do* function."

--John Quijada