Re: Conlang as a divider from others

abrigon@yahoo.com writes:
>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.
If you are referring to the Eskaya, they are not from Micronesia, they're
from the Philippines. Anyway, their language IS a wall to communication
with other groups because they actually are a secret society, so their
language and writing would be a means to exclude everyone else (they say
they're descended from Sumatran Indonesians BTW).