Re: your conlang, please? (Rich Aunt gets hold of the Lunatic Survey)

Sally Caves wrote:

> Of course this is precisely what we CAN'T say about "private languages."
> Does that bother you that your language has a speaker of one?  Some of
> you get together and learn each other's languages.  I'm thinking in
> particular of Brithenig and Kernu (whose inventors have remained notably
> silent!)  Is one of the appeals of a private invented language that you
> alone know its secrets and control its development?
>
>         What would happen if someone got hold of your conlang and
>         vast numbers began using it and speaking it and changing it?
>         Remember the "No Rich Aunt" scenario?  What if she made you
>         a village?
>
I don't think Nova is very speakable by Homo sapiens although I am
probably wrong.  But if it were, and I could know that people were
really immersed in it and had only it as a language in common, I
would find it fascinating to see how it would develop.  Otherwise,
this is mine, they can look but not change.
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