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<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 5773557" data-attributes="member: 32536">The Esperanto analogy is a bit forced... especially when you consider that Esperanto is not a learnable language. People have tried to raise kids with Esperanto as their first language, and they've failed. Esperanto is a language with no irregular verbs, but anyone raised with Esperanto as their first language will use a version that has irregular verbs. As such, it is a language that quite literally can not be passed on from one generation to the next without breaking that ideal of not changing core aspects of the vocabulary and grammar... If anything, Esperanto might be proof that you need change and alteration to get things to work. This is especially true considering the most successful languages (natural ones) are ridiculously flexible and are fundamentally changed and diversified all the time.A more appropriate linguistic analogy for what 5E would be trying to do is the concept of pidgin languages designed to bridge pre-existing linguistic divides in a naturalistic way. And those succeed all the time (often evolving into passed-down creole languages).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 5773557, member: 32536"] The Esperanto analogy is a bit forced... especially when you consider that Esperanto is not a learnable language. People have tried to raise kids with Esperanto as their first language, and they've failed. Esperanto is a language with no irregular verbs, but anyone raised with Esperanto as their first language will use a version that has irregular verbs. As such, it is a language that quite literally can not be passed on from one generation to the next without breaking that ideal of not changing core aspects of the vocabulary and grammar... If anything, Esperanto might be proof that you need change and alteration to get things to work. This is especially true considering the most successful languages (natural ones) are ridiculously flexible and are fundamentally changed and diversified all the time. A more appropriate linguistic analogy for what 5E would be trying to do is the concept of pidgin languages designed to bridge pre-existing linguistic divides in a naturalistic way. And those succeed all the time (often evolving into passed-down creole languages). [/QUOTE]

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