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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 29 November 2015 05:30:26PM 1 point [-]

Applied Ontology: An Introduction. The better you understand the ontological structure of the word the better you will be able to design a language that can precisely describe the ontological structure of the world.

Understanding the true ontological structure of the world is very non trivial, and you might want an improved language to do it in before get finished.

Comment author: KevinGrant 30 November 2015 07:25:30AM 1 point [-]

Agreed. This was one of my more painful realizations, that I might have to do more than one iteration of the conlang before developing a finished product, because there will be no way to understand the flaws in the first version well enough to correct them until after learning to speak it fluently.