No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.
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I have never designed a language for its own sake.
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
You couldn't have human society without language.
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
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