further response to Edmund Grimley-Evans

[Edmund Grimley-Evans <cbmvax!uunet!RZ.UNI-SB.DE!dfkihueg>]

> Our best hope, in my mind, is to convince the community of linguists that
> as simplified languages, the ALs may show things more clearly that can then
> be looked for in natural languages.  Otherwise, we have to wait for a new
> generation of linguists that is more interested in broader questions of
> language use then the basic one of why human beings have language and are
> able to communicate successfully with it.

Let us hope that the new generation of linguists will soon appear.

However I suspect that we will never understand language properly
without trying to construct languages ourselves. Linguistics should be
more experimental!