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Re: Language superiority, improvement, etc.

From:JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON <mpearson@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 14, 1998, 21:17
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Tom Wier wrote:

> Matt Pearson wrote: > > > > Amen. It may not be easy, it may take many many versions, but here at > > > conlang we are all blazing the trail of accelerated language evolution. > > > > Are we? That's news to me. Myself, I'm trying to create something which > > mimics as closely as possible the complexities and eccentricities of > > naturally occuring human languages. > > Again, what he meant to say was rather that, whether or not we are > consious of it, we are in many ways contributing to learning about > how languages interact with one another by doing it ourselves. His > statement was only ambiguous, and you read it the opposite way he > intended. :)
What do you mean by "languages interacting with one another"? That doesn't seem to describe Tokana either. Matt.