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If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

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.

I'm pretty good with languages.

You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying things, but if you don't actually understand the way the language fits together, it's chaos.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.