[Foundation-l] Fwd: Tokipona

[Andrew Gray]

On 22/01/2008, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) <pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is no real difference between a historical language used by
> enthusiasts and a constructed language used by enthusiasts. You argue
> that speakers of a historical language must invent words to cover
> modern languages, thus making it a new language not covered by the ISO
> 639 code. However, the same is true for constructed language

,,,surely the same is fundamentally true for *all* languages, modern
and ancient, natural and artificial, alike? New concept, either an old
word gets repurposed or a new one gets created. It's just a difference
of scale and of conscious awareness of the process.

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- Andrew Gray
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