No, I don't think governments should have any role in conla… - Arika Okrent

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No, I don't think governments should have any role in conlang development or promotion. The languages will entice people to participate or they won't. That's the only way it's ever worked, even when governments have tried to get involved

Arika Okrent

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Arika Okrent is an American linguist, known especially for her book In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language, the result of five years of research on the subject of constructed languages.

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