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It has become increasingly difficult to simply post here, and I see why:
http://textboard.org/prog/273/6
I've been attempting to reduce my internet usage lately, somewhat successfully.
As have I, although without much reason.
You are correct about word choice in English of course.
I've been delighted to learn that Latin also exposes a great deal of choice. I can choose between active and passive voice, of course, but I can also choose between, say, "apud accusative" and "cum ablative" for a preposition indicating others, and the declensions and prepositions provide so many different ways to mean the same thing. Here are four ways to write "pearl necklace"; my book hasn't mentioned the last, but I believe it's correct:
līnea margarītārum (line of pearls)
līnea cum margarītīs (line with pearls)
margarītae in līneā (pearls in line)
līnea apud margarītās (line among pearls)
The first word of each of these would of course be declined based on usage; these are nominative. Continuing with Latin has continued improving mine English. I now believe I know the etymology of absent, being derived from absunt, being the opposite of adsunt, meaning hīc sunt, meaning multiple entities being present. The word exit is Latin. We get voluntary from volunt, being the plural of vult. I'm building new associations, rather than learning an entirely new language. Latin is fun.
restricting word creation to prevent degeneration
Word creation is explicitly allowed, if only due to the reality of an incomplete dictionary, merely managed.
For some reason even still I'm not entirely enthralled by the idea, perhaps due to confusion over the best way to transfer and combine auxiliary dictionaries, and the extent to which this is done (or worse, would be done despite your intentions) for example by a single author.
They would be tied to the works using them; ideally, sharing them wouldn't be worthwhile.
I live in America, in a border state (in the civil war sense), but this place is not what it once was.
We're more alike than first thought. My mathematics education has also been pathetic, and I lazily work to correct this. I mostly only know of discrete math. I was similarly disappointed with university. My Latin courses didn't teach as well as the book series I'm reading, LINGVA LATINA PER SE ILLVSTRATA, and I'm inclined to believe a classroom with limited time is a poor way to learn a language; I take my time now, to real results and useful understanding.
At this point my only hope in not dying a fool is to find some way to take my time back, and to try my best to use what I've been left with better, as you say.
I waste most of my time, and merely avoid wasting all of it.
English may be one of the worst languages for something higher-level, as I've considered with Latin. There was something else about Elision to mention, but I don't currently recall.