So, all these European Volapük/Esperanto-likes were based on the then trending evolutionary thesis that inflected languages are …
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Replying to @alegrilli @increpare
…the superior form of human language, and this suprematist POV was seen as childish from outside, believed to eventually pass. …
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calling something as supremacist / childish is saying you don't like it, but not saying that it's wrong.
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It is wrong in that later theories suggest a non-linear evolution of languages.
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Replying to @alegrilli
in terms of the observations of how languages change over time?
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The people who spoke proto-Indo-European dispersed in different directions and their language evolved and mixed thus …
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…in different ways, giving birth to the languages in Europe and parts of Asia and Africa, is the theory by current …
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…historical linguists. This as opposed to languages being in a single evolutionary axis.
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but the "survival of the fittest" argument about language features would still apply?
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Replying to @increpare
I suppose it would. Of course, a language surviving does not equal it being good (whatever such a qualifier would mean).
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you've already stated what you think of as good in the context of an IAL. I accept that they're sensible priorities
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