On a related note, a poll (You have to reply, yes/no is worthless here): Is there such thing as a superior language? Is it meaningful to say that English is better than, say, Mandarin? My answer is yes. (Possible crit.: informational efficiency, beauty, nuance)
Difficult to imagine a contrived language replacing one embedded within a group of people. Personally I find it interesting how good idioms/slang from other languages or cultures travel. That captures what I think is important: language is best when playful compression.
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(To be clear: what I'm saying is that groups of people embed their culture within their language, so it's unlikely that you could contrive a language that would be as useful as the one they already use.)
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And, also, we fixate upon language's ability to communicate information and 'tone' efficiently, but difficult nuances and niche languages are also used to create and protect spaces for ingroup. So language which precludes this can only be superior in some respects.
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