[Foundation-l] Fwd: Tokipona
Andrew Gray
shimgray at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 08:44:09 UTC 2008
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
andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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