Linguists debate whether sanskrit was ever a spoken language or only a specially cultured version of the Indian vernaculars of the time. (Scientists love arguing with each other. Every ivory tower needs an action movie.) It would certainly be enticing to construct an exceptionally rich language from existing ones, a kind of reverse esperanto that is capable of all kinds of interesting manoeuvres. All languages that I have met so far had fascinating features, ways of expressing concepts that others could only attain with complicated circumvention.
Ahem... Correction. In Turkish the doubled word with the second part beginning with "m" apparently doesn't mean what I wrote. It's more: "the named thing and similar things". For example: "I don't trust Barış-Marış" means "I don't trust Barış and people like him."
Ahem... Correction. In Turkish the doubled word with the second part beginning with "m" apparently doesn't mean what I wrote. It's more: "the named thing and similar things". For example: "I don't trust Barış-Marış" means "I don't trust Barış and people like him."