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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 92
Message ID: 34
#34, RE: Standard language?
Posted by Polychrome on Sep-02-01 at 06:04 AM
In response to message #20
LAST EDITED ON Sep-02-01 AT 06:05 AM (EDT)

>Probably not. But the success it does have -- it's a living language,
>in some sense (as I've said, 14 million speakers is more than a large

Is it, in point of fact, a living language?
Are people teaching it to their children as a primary language?
Are the meanings and pronunciations of the words changing?
Are the grammatical structures changing? Does it have slang?

>number of natural languages) -- and its simplicity and expressiveness

There are ~2000 languages in use right now, many of them are dying out
as their associated cultures are assimilated into larger cultures. Esperanto
doesn't have an associated culture, and unless it gets one, will never become
a "real" language.

Polychrome