One of the main purposes of language -- especially written language -- is to communicate ideas as widely as possible. Excluding "dialects" is excluding the vast

One of the main purposes of language -- especially written language -- is to communicate ideas as widely as possible. Excluding "dialects" is excluding the vast majority of English speakers, especially if you define a dialect as anything different from "English spoken by Utah settlers circa 1850 to 1870". There's a reason these conlangs don't catch on: they're rooted in false and frankly hubristic notions about language, such as: - Language never changes. Okay, well, it used to change constantly, but that stops starting now! - The way we talk is obviously correct and will always be correct, and everyone else is wrong. But this is a cool alphabet to know if you really need to write a message to a mid-19th-century Utah settler. Oh, wait, they wouldn't be able to read it either. But I'm sure it made Brigham Young feel superior to everyone else, which was its actual purpose all along.