[conlang_learners] Food for thought

[kate rhodes]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/6/23 kate rhodes <masukomi at masukomi.org>:
> [Toki Pona]
> > the total inability to indicate the center of a circle
>
> What's wrong with "insa sike"?
>
> "insa" can be "centre", and "sike" is essentially "circle".


hrm maybe that's changed. I would have sworn that, once upon a time, circle
and center were the same word, and you could be in a circle but you couldn't
be at the center of a circle. A couple of us brought it up on the list and
the problem was essentially dismissed. It was quite a while ago though. The
basic point remains that a language that isn't free to evolve can be very
frustrating to users who need to communicate things that the creator didn't
anticipate.

-Kate
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