Cheng-Zhong Su skrev:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Kjell Rehnström <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> But there is a trend that may work inn the opposite direction. Invent a
>> language without articles, and I bet you will get them as time passes. And
>> try to invent one without tences, and I bet that you will get tenses in it!
>> This because thos who are interested in auxiliary languages are speakers of
>> Western languages, where there indeed is a common vocabulary that you can
>> extract, which nearly all the invented languages have got!
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>> Kjell R
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> I think you have thought too much about an invented language or constructed
> language. I believe that a language could not be invented by any single
> person and no one would write article in a totally invented language. What
> we are wishing to do is tell the authors or writers that with short brevity
> words, he or she can save the time of the reader. With compound words he or
> she could make more audience. The rest thing is depending on them. No matter
> what language you speak, if you always using long word and synthetic word
> then you are telling people you hate audience.
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I will keep my post and Su's reply in order to demonstrate the 
misunderstanding on his side. I am writing about articles like "the" and 
"an" in English.

And "no" it is no problem to invent a language.

1. I can invent a variety of English. I just have to write along and I 
will unconsciously make mistakes which may be interference from Swedish 
or errors resulting in my misguided imagination of what is correct 
English. And a native speaker will say: "This is not English, even if 
there are lots of English words in it!" And I can reply: "This is my 
idiolect of English. I am the author of this language."

2. I can take a dicionary of foreign words in a lot of European 
languages and construct a language. And I can write newspaper articles 
in it and se if it is understood.

3. Another method can be me using an already existing aurtificial 
language tweaking it into a Grammar I like.

4. There is also the possibility to make up words. I decide that 
"banana" is "chip" and "milk" is "sheyk" or whatever and voilà a new 
language. But such a language will have a snowball's chance in hell, as 
I don't have the authority to make people learn it.

So, aj kan vont a langvage layk dis.

O ego poss komponer un general-european ling kvam ti, u ego furta 
(steal) vokabularie de mult auxilings. Ego kred ke to e komprensibli per 
mult membres de ti grup.

Kjell R