Re: Language superiority, improvement, etc.

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.