WeepingElf wrote: ↑08 Jul 2024 13:57 Let me clarify my stance on artificial international auxiliary languages (auxlangs). Making an auxlang is a legitimate intellectual pursuit; indeed, I have laid down my ideas how I'd design one, and maybe I'll make a "case study auxlang" based on these ideas one day.
Closed vocabulary schemes are not easier to learn than natural languages, which always have open (i.e., extensible) vocabularies: you have to learn thousands of circumlocutions instead. They merely make language usage more clumsy. The large and indeterminate size of natural languages is not a bug, but a feature. Reality is too complex to break down into a few hundred "basic concepts".
"Not a bug, but a feature". That's what I say about why Vötgil gets it all wrong.
Euriziano is at no risk of falling into the Vötgil trap here -- Latin had a vocabulary of 45,000 words to choose from, while Esperanto has 77,000.