A friend of mine one jokingly but reasonably accurately described Ithkuil as, "Build a language with as much derivational morphology as humanly possible, then a

A friend of mine one jokingly but reasonably accurately described Ithkuil as, "Build a language with as much derivational morphology as humanly possible, then add some more, and you've got Ithkuil." It's a fascinating experiment and a lot of fun to read about. As a fascinating side-note: the language was also at one point adopted by some kind of fringe pseudo-religious movement called "Psychonetics" as a "…technology of human consciousness." There's a fascinating article about Ithkuil, its creator, and its adoption by that movement here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-beginners https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be... (and the previous HN discussion of it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8180493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8180493 )