Re: Why grammar is so complex a subject

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> If Gary wants to put his ideas to the test and produce a conlang in
> the way he has described, and see how it works out, that's fine - I
> have no quarrel with that. But please do not say that this is how
> conlangs in general should be produced.
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The problem, IMO, with "using conlangs into existence" is that
invariably what you feel you need is exactly the structures that your L1
has and your conlang lacks. Anyone who's ever learned another natlang
that isn't closely related to their own will have learned that often the
new language feels "lacking" to you until you adjust to using what it
has, rather than what it seems to be missing by comparison with your L1.
The first thing your brain tries to do is force a familiar pattern on
things, so using a conlang into existence without designing it would
amount, I think, to grammatically recreating your L1 with just the shape
of the morphemes changed.