[Foundation-l] Fwd: Tokipona

Tue Jan 22 10:01:21 UTC 2008

On 22/01/2008, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Berto made a good post about how this worked for Piemontese which I
can't find right now. They tried very hard to translate things
conceptually, not just using variants of the Italian or English words.

- d.