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> If you want to create a proper language, you should have it well > defined before you release it. Otherwise, one of two things would > happen: > > 1. you change it => people stop using the language > 2. you leave the language how it is => you're left with a sub-par > language. > > That is the fate of every language released into the world. Or : 3. the people who speak it start changing it => you have a vibrant language that meets a linguistic need. I'm hoping Ceqli can have a solid architectural basis so that other people besides just us can make reasonable judgements about how to extend it. If it turns out that yet another article, beyond any that we anticipated, is desirable, that's okay, as long as speakers have a sense of what would be an appropriate extension. If they start adding morphemes that flout the phonological or morphological rules, that would be bad, and we would have to ask ourselves why that happened. But if they add morphemes that follow the rules, I think that's great, and I think Ceqli is well positioned to permit sensible growth that way. --Krawn