> The comments about the people of Micronesia whose lingo supposedly is
> unrelated to any others in the area, makes me thing that in some ways a
> Conlang can be a WALL to communication, or atleast between groups. It
> can be like some professions that have highly technically words so that
> ever if they are speaking English, you can't understand the whole
> converations due to all the additional words, like medical doctors have.
>
> I wonder if a small group could not invent a Conlang, use it as a lingo
> of thier group/commune/sect/etc so that amongst themselves they can
> communicate, but the outside can't. Like the Amish and like groups go
> with old High German and like lingos..
>
> Mike
>
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