Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)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(a)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.
--
Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)