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Rick Morneau scripsit: > As I understand it, an engilang is simply a language that is completely > regular in all aspects of its grammar, including semantics, syntax, > morphology, and pronunciation. Not necessarily. Engelangs could incorporate irregularity if there something resembling an engineering justification for it. In Old Loglan, for example, the process of forming compounds was irregular: one chose small chunks of the source words and formed them irregularly into a compound. The justification, of course, was brevity. In the end it was discovered that regularity had an advantage that justified the lack of brevity: it prevented two different compound-creators from creating the same compound from different source words. -- John Cowan <jcowan@hidden.email> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_