Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Please read the proposal better next time. "sufficiently expressive" is used for the proposed criteria for constructed and reconstructed languages. Natural languages are not like Navajo are not in that class.
The "reconstructed" languages you suggest are natural languages without modern native speakers.
Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
This "vague statement" has been there from the start, it is only vague because of your insistence that it is to be interpreted in a way it was not intended to be. The intent was that it was to be read as an exception on the rule for native speakers. I know because I put it there.
You did not put it there. It was present in my original draft written in November 2006: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy?diff=466496#Prerequisites. This predated my joining of the subcommittee, so you had no say in that draft. It was intended as an additional requirement, as shown by the fact that there's no requirement for native speakers in that draft to exempt them from. It was only left as an oversight, and then you blocked its removal when we noticed.