It expands the mind! Note that Ithkuil III does kind of have the unpronounceable quality - I've heard it described as sounding like a "hacking cough". But the

It expands the mind! Note that Ithkuil III does kind of have the unpronounceable quality - I've heard it described as sounding like a "hacking cough". But the actual structure of the language is fascinating, and brings a lot of stuff about English into focus. English loves making new words, and the resulting combinatorial explosion makes various concepts unrepresentable. Ithkuil has very few words, but allows you to attach enormous amounts of grammar to them to adjust their meaning coarsely or finely. For an example of something I simply hadn't considered before, and which Ithkuil expanded my mind to encompass: it even has a grammatical way to indicate a statement that is true because it has just been stated. Search term: the "declarative" illocution. Just as you can adjust a statement using grammar to turn it into a question - i.e. a statement with neutral truth value pending a reply - you can turn it into a "declaration" (no real English equivalent exists) - i.e. a statement with a positive truth value pending the listeners' acceptance. Example: "this court is now in session".