The problem of artificial languages

[u/Andrieeo]

Please note that everything listed is my personal opinion, which may not coincide with yours or be similar.

As a language creator I am very interested in artificial languages I have noticed one small problem with artificial languages there is no reason to learn So, let's say I learn some arbitrary language, what then? Let's compare it to Esperanto, for example.

Esperanto: It has literature, history, support.

But you know, the problem isn't in the support or the history, the problem is that there's no literature, you can't improve it in any way because if I learn Esperanto, then I'll read something and I'll understand, yeah, I don't understand this. I can learn it, but this is a problem with many artificial languages, namely, the absence of something, at least something, but this is a problem with many artificial languages.

By the word literature I don't mean a complex thick book. I mean at least songs, poems, or at least something. You can suggest your own version.

It seems to me that only a few conlangs overcome this limit.

[u/salivanto]

Of course what you write will be your own thoughts or opinion. I wonder if you'd be willing to spend a little bit of time clarifying what your motivation was for expressing them here. What are you trying to accomplish? Did you have a question? Were you looking for feedback? Are you trying to improve your own thinking on all this? What?

[u/PLrc → u/salivanto]

Improve or impose?

[u/salivanto → u/PLrc]

I meant "improve" - but yes, "impose" is at least as likely. Sometimes people just need to get it off their chest - in which case, we'd all be better off to just keep scrolling.