Natural and unnatural languages
I personally like naturalistic languages, so my invented languages are full of irregularities, quirky lexical derivations, and interesting idioms.
It's easier, no doubt, to create a "logical" language, and desirable if you want to create an auxiliary interlanguage, à la Esperanto. The danger here is a) creating a system so pristine, so abstract, that it's also impossible to learn; or b) not noticing when you reproduce some illogicality present in the models you're using. Ask me about the irregularities of Esperanto sometime.
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