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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Panu Petteri Höglund</b>
on <!--date-->4:15 7/26/01
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Mark, I wonder if it is ethical to tamper with the languages now that
you have made them public. This regards especially Verdurian - I doubt
if Barakhinei and Ismain have acquired much of a following, but there
may be so many fluent Verdurian speakers out there already that they are
already - by sheer numbers, and especially if they have already started
communicating in the language - be more justified than you to define
what is good Verdurian. This is part of what is so great about Internet
for conlangers - you might create a community or pool of speakers
unwittingly, and as soon as there is a pool of speakers which functions
as a community, sociolinguistically speaking you have lost your
copyright or at least your right to major revisions.
<p>I am not being cheeky, I am just addressing a supremely interesting
sociolinguistic problem.
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>I understand the problem-- if nothing else, I don't want to further
harm the fluency of the one fluent writer of Verdurian, myself. :)
For instance, despite temptation, I haven't modified the inflections
of Verdurian in over 20 years.
<p>I don't think we quite have a "pool of speakers" yet... let's see
some more postings in Verdurian first. :)
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