Re: OT Associated Press covers endangered languages

On Sep 18, 1:37 pm, "X. Rayburn" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_re_us/endangered_languages
>
> Here is a thought that crosses my mind sometimes: Maybe it would be
> more honorable to use one's linguistic skills to help keep one of these
> endangered languages alive, rather than making up half-baked languages
> that no one will ever speak.

In 1999, Boudewijn Rempt wrote a response to this I fully agree with
and don't believe I can state better:

http://www.valdyas.org/apologia.html

One might equally ask whether it is "more honorable" for those who
keep endangered languages (barely) alive to use their linguistic
skills in the creation and propagation of new and inventive ones...

 - Sai