Re: Settling an Argument - Assembly *IS* a Language, Right?

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

'Human language', or better, 'natural language' refers to those
systems that are L1 transmitted - that is, things that children
can learn from their community. Lojban, and other constructed
languages, don't qualify at all, much less programming
languages.

There are native Esperanto speakers, "denaskaj Esperantistoj," yet it is a constructed language.

Where are there native Esperanto speakers?

And if they ever meet, can they understand each other?

And if they can, how much of it is by the massive amount of common
vocuablary rather than common structure?
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