Opinion on crafted languages:
I'm really sceptical that any crafted language will ever actually work if one of those don't happen :
- a gov decide to make it official language and enforce it's use at the expence of the country previous language.
- the gate keppers stop being rigid about the rules and let people who use the language decide what works better for them, and adapt the rules.
I understand the later might bring some confusion at the beginning, but languages need to adapt to the people who speak them, not the reverse.
@Ambraven I do agree. However, I don't think it is useless though. I mean, it's fun to learn, fun to create. And learning something like Esperanto is easy enough so that with only little knowledge, it is able to understand and talk about basic things.
However, I think there are also other issues (about Esperanto, but it may be applied to other languages as well) : Esperanto aims to be an international language, but is based only on european ones ; it is really binary (probably less inclusive than french, I really don't like marking the gender of every word).
@fluffy I fully agree with this.
Esperanto is problematic, some people try to arrange that, the gate keepers are like "IT'S TOO COMPLICATED, DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING, IT'S NOT A REAL ISSUE, etc"...
Dude, if you're language is so fragile it is doomed too fail.
And indeed it's european centric.
Lojban is really better for all this, letting you precise stuff or not as you like, but it's freaking difficult to learn and speak. (and you don't find many translators online... for a language supposedly easy for computer to parse, it is disapointing. )