Re: Language superiority, improvement, etc.

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>Matt Pearson wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> 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.
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>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. :)
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>Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
Yes, thanks Tom for getting my sense. But Christopher Palmer misread me
too so there must have been some ambiguity there. I have also had the
experience of being surprised by my own creations and their
consequences in the way that Matt mentioned. I am saying that an
unexpected byproduct of our individual pursuits here is to set the
stage for language change.  I'm all too painfully aware that not
everyone believes in the possibility or desirability of generalized
language improvement.  Nonetheless those same disbelievers could be
incidentally contributing to precisely that. If so I don't see that they
should mind.

ATB,

jerry