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In response to "totally disagree about this. and I consider those languages "not real" because they're imposed.. -- nm" by loosilu

I kind of look at it like - is a chair still a chair is no one's sitting in it? In the same way, Klingon is a language even if it's no one's mother

Posted by Reagen (aka Reagen) Nov 19 '09, 10:51

tongue.

Another possible parallel - American Sign Language. Someone had to invent that.

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hmmmm, I dunno. True someone invented ASL but it certainly has turned into a mother tongue for many. -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:53 9
- (There are a handful of native Esperanto speakers, BTW) -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 10:55 4
  - really? I didn't know that. -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:56 3
    - there are esperanto conferences. I imagine occasionally people meet/get married/have kids from them, and might only have esperanto in common. -- nm - mafic Nov 19, 11:00
    - It's George Soros's, of all people, mother tongue. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 11:00
    - there are esperanto conferences. I imagine occasionally people meet/get married/have kids from them, and might only have esperanto in common. -- nm - mafic Nov 19, 11:00
- by this definition, Latin isn't a language anymore. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 10:54 3
  - isn't it called a "dead" language? -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:55
  - well, it evolved into a handful of other languages ... -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 10:55 1
    - Well someone at some time had to invent the words for Latin. It didn't just magically appear one day. -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 10:56

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