>
> What about imaginary languages? Lord of the Rings 'substitutes'
> English for
> languages that don't exist...
>
Well, rather like Esperanto they do exist, it's just that they're
invented. In the LotR case, they're not in use outside the books and
the film and the few people who, for whatever reason, chose to learn
them. If a man speaks Elvish in a forest and nobody listens does the
language exist? It depends whether you think it's a means of
communication (needing a sender and a receiver) or simply a complete
and coherent system that needs only to exist for itself to be classed
as a 'language'. Maybe more people are learning Elvish because of the
films?
j
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