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> The language evolves. Conlangs aren't meant to evolve, especially not IALs. That's how you get dialects, and soon you're right back to where you started. Th
by msla 7y ago
> The language evolves.
Conlangs aren't meant to evolve, especially not IALs. That's how you get dialects, and soon you're right back to where you started.
The whole point of having an artificial language as your IAL is that it's rational, planned, and unchanging; it's the same language at all times, in all places, as opposed to a natural IAL like English, which has regional and national variants and evolves over time sufficiently to make statements mean different things in different decades.
- taejo 7y agoAnd yet it does move. So you want a language that never changes, but also perfectly matches today's mores? And you want enough people to speak it that it lasts multiple decades?
- msla 7y ago> So you want a language that never changes, but also perfectly matches today's mores? And you want enough people to speak it that it lasts multiple decades? That's what the Esperantists want. I'm the one who's saying it's impossible.