[ExI] Free will was: Everett worlds

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 6:59 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:13 AM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 4:10 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
>> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 8:51 AM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 8:12 AM Anton Sherwood <bronto at pobox.com> wrote:
>> >> > I have a germ of an idea for a conlang: what Lojban would become if it
>> >> > were the inter-language of people with no interest in the philosophy of
>> >> > Lojban.
>> >>
>> >> How would it avoid the usual language change that faces natural
>> >> languages, especially if it became a lingua franca along the lines of
>> >> English today? A lot of it would depend on enforcement of its
>> >> strictures. Once it becomes 'free range,' how would you maintain that?
>> >
>> >
>> > And if it never becomes "free range", is there any realistic expectation it would grow beyond maybe a few thousand speakers at most?  People making the language their own seems necessary for the language to gain any significant spread.
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>> Ex hyposthesi: was proposing that it would become free range, no? If
>> it doesn't, then it's easier to maintain for obvious reasons, no? It's
>> kind of like someone was asking 'What if we used giant spray mister
>> towers in strategic locations to control the smoke spreading around
>> the Western US?' and you responded with 'And if we didn't?' :)
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>
> Nah, I was just emphasizing your point.  Some might say that it must never become free range so it can be controlled - but if it never does, then it will never become more than a tiny, near-universally irrelevant historical footnote.

I think we're in violent agreement on that. :)

By the way, some of you might like _Language Unlimited: The Science
Behind Our Most Creative Power_ by David Adger. He brings up a lot of
interesting stuff on conlangs.

Regards,

Dan
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