<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:13 AM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 4:10 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br>
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> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 8:51 AM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 8:12 AM Anton Sherwood <<a href="mailto:bronto@pobox.com" target="_blank">bronto@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > I have a germ of an idea for a conlang: what Lojban would become if it<br>
>> > were the inter-language of people with no interest in the philosophy of<br>
>> > Lojban.<br>
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>> How would it avoid the usual language change that faces natural<br>
>> languages, especially if it became a lingua franca along the lines of<br>
>> English today? A lot of it would depend on enforcement of its<br>
>> strictures. Once it becomes 'free range,' how would you maintain that?<br>
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> 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.<br>
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Ex hyposthesi: was proposing that it would become free range, no? If<br>
it doesn't, then it's easier to maintain for obvious reasons, no? It's<br>
kind of like someone was asking 'What if we used giant spray mister<br>
towers in strategic locations to control the smoke spreading around<br>
the Western US?' and you responded with 'And if we didn't?' :)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. </div></div></div>