What we can learn from invented languages

摘要

We all have probably traveled and worked where people have invented their own language, or at least their own words. I had dealings once with a very religious Jewish family in Spain who had emigrated from Morocco. In their office they spoke this amalgamation of Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish and English with a hint of Yiddish thrown in. I could only understand a few words of all this, but they knew what everything meant; it was a perfect language for that office, as each snippet of spoken word had some characteristic not found in another language.