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Hello Jacques! I cheerfully submit that "success" is dependent on the design goals of the person who crafted the language, and these goals will differ for each person and each language. I have several languages that all have different goals: some are painfully regular, some are naturallistically irregular; some have consonants that I can't even pronounce, and some have very sober phonological inventories. The reason for this diversity is that when an idea pops in my head, each language has a different vision. A language is successful when it matches that vision, and sometimes (actually always) the vision develops and changes and evolves over time, and the end result (if there is any such thing) impresses me more than the original vision. Design goals might be anything, and in this group those goals are usually arranged around imagination, not an idea of practicality. Others in the group have already commented much more eloquently on this topic, so I'll end here. But the language I've recently introduced to the group will certainly only perfectly satisfy *me* as far as what it is intended to do, though I'm sure some here will appreciate at least the vision behind it... it's actually inspired by the cryptic Hiberno-Latin of the old Celtic monasteries. Also, as I also mentioned, I have Asperger's Syndrome; and again, cheerfully, I'd just like to suggest that maybe you should be more careful with the word "autistic." Cheers, Eamon --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Jacques Dehée <jacquesdehe@...> wrote: > > > I mean a successful romance conlang, not a cryptogram ! > > Cheers, Jacques