Re: Necessity of Conculture?

Culture and language are incontrvertably linked.  British English differs
from American English strictly *because* our cultures differ.

But, it is not necessary for a constructed language to have a constructed
culture.  I can imagine inventing a language whose only speakers are,
well, myself and anyone who cares to learn it.  It becomes the language of
a real culture -- my culture.

Why do I then prefer to invent cultures for my languages?  Because at
times I like to imagine myself among the Hataso, people so wise and strong
that they haven't a word for bigotry, people who have some concept of the
value of simplicity, but not ignorence for its own sake.  People who know
how to make fusion bombs and fision reactors, and choose not to.  People
for whom war is a faded memory, and whose idea of social conflict consists
of silent marches and gentle strugles of will.  And, I like to imagine
what might happen if they find their long lost children and begin to teach
us their language and their culture.

But yes, Hatasoe could be a language disconnected from people (and its
progenitor, Hatas-Oa, in fact was disconnected from culture).  I think it
might lose that richness, that lexical strangeness, that it otherwise has.