[ExI] Free will was: Everett worlds

[Anton Sherwood]

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 8:12 AM Anton Sherwood 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.

On 2020-9-14 08:06, Dan TheBookMan wrote:
> 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?

You can't; that's the point of the concept.

My idea in a bit more detail.  A Lojban-like language is developed to 
communicate with nonhumans, because the less you have in common the more 
you need to make explicit.  It becomes the dominant language of a 
human-settled planet, which later loses contact, allowing dialects to 
drift and diverge.  How quickly are the Lojban-like distinctive features 
lost?

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