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re: language learned from books get "reset" Ah, good observation. I'm reading "The Last Lingua Franca" and this phenomena is accredited for why lingua francas seem to be more stable, especially where they are being used outside of the range where that language is a mother tongue. [Taglish certainly looks like a counter example, I'm not trying to say this is a law of physic or anything] re: noisy room & redundancy Hmm. Maybe these are all the same problem. The problem of language change over time is not unlike language change as it goes through a noisy telephone connection. The ultimate in engineered protocols would be a sort of check sum. I've been trying to think up a checksum that could be applied to language, but I haven't though of one. I also have been noticing how certain mistakes in toki pona are recoverable, i.e. if you make the mistake the meaning isn't lost, but other mistakes, if you make the mistake, the sentence is gibberish. But I don't have thing to generalize yet. As Esperanto example would be eroded "n", which can be dropped without too much loss because people use SVO ordering in addition to accusative marking.