[conlang_learners] Food for thought

[Alexandre Baudry]

  Hmm, It's always the same problem. I consider that a language is a package, and to a certain extent, if you change things, there would be other problems somewhere else.

  So I don't think you can make minor changes without changing the language itself. In that case, it's a new language that is built, or a clone if you prefer.

  Personnally, I don't really mind.


Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:36:01 -0400
From: masukomi at masukomi.org
To: conlang_learners at conlang.org
Subject: Re: [conlang_learners] Food for thought



If the conlang is inflexible, then increasing the poo, of speakers will cause some potential friction. So, again, should we not give greater weight to those with some mechanism for "official" change?

the inflexibility is precisely why i didn't bother to keep up with Toki Pona. I appreciate its philosophy but the fact that there are problems (like the total inability to indicate the center of a circle)  but you have zero hope of the language growing or changing to compensate for them, is very frustrating. All languages have failings, but all living languages evolve to handle problems and new concepts. 


-Kate

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