"No Law-Chaos judgement built into the universe, no magic, no afterlives just the equivalent of turning people into statues until we can heal them later, people just do it so their kids can learn conlangs when they grow up. I assume our language got synthesized de novo, but for unknown reasons Civilization sealed off all its history, so I'd don't know the story of that. But compared to Taldane the difference is very stark, it's very obvious that Baseline was designed and Taldane just happened."
"For example, grammatical Baseline - not all conlangs - always has exactly one legitimate parsing. There's no homonyms, no cases of two meanings with the same sound. If you stick to a subset used for emergencies and basic social interactions, there's no two sentences that sound the same even if you run all the phonemes together and eliminate spaces. The most common words are short and long words are used more rarely. All digits are single syllables that sound completely unlike each other and are written using very clearly distinguishable strokes. That sort of thing."
"Taldane would reduce most of our people who care about language properties to frothing incoherent horror and madness."