Why Study an Artificial Language?
Artificial languages are invented, and have precise and easily articulated rules. In contrast, “natural” languages—like English or Spanish —have developed over time and have rules that are much more difficult to set out and understand. This makes artificial languages very simple and easy to learn, since their rules are so simple and straightforward. (It will take you only a few minutes to learn the rules for constructing well-formed sentences of the artificial language we will be using; compare that with how long it takes to learn the rules of English grammar!) For another thing, our language (again, unlike natural languages) is ambiguity-free. That is, each sentence of our language has a precise meaning. This feature has disadvantages, of course, since such sentences cannot have the shades and nuances of meaning that make natural languages so interesting and subtle. But it has one great advantage: it is capable of a kind of precision that cannot be easily achieved in a natural languag
