Re: What criteria do you have for your own or others' languages?

Hi!

daniel prohaska writes:
> >...
> > A fictional ethnic language, on the other hand, should *not* be overly
> > regular and simplistic, but resemble a natlang, and obey well-established
> > linguistic universals.
> >...
> "Well, this is not necessary if the creator defines the society differently.
> E.g. Vulcans would probably not have an irregular language.  So the design
> of the society were the language is to be spoken might override the default
> goals for conlang design that you
> give here.[...]"
>
> Well, this may be up for dispute, since Vulcans are not only logical, ...
It was meant to me an example of where one could expect something
different than something following well-established linguistic
universals.  I don't want to dispute whether it was a good
example. :-) Just pick your favorite one.  The point is: this is bound
to the goals of the designer, even though it is not an engelang.

**Henrik