While I second your wish that conlangs were more popular (I learnt Toki Pona some time back), I would ask you to refrain from such subjective language criticisms as &quot;it&#x27;s ugly&quot;. I speak English and German natively, and I can&#x27;t stand it when people criticize the other language on such personal grounds.<p>As for your take on the redundancy of natural languages, I would point out that it is perfectly natural and can probably be found in just about any language. (Otherwise, there would be no such thing as a thesaurus...) To stick with your example, you could also talk about &quot;the boarding pass&quot; instead of &quot;the ticket&quot; in English.<p>Indeed, the redundancy of words and vocabulary forms much of the beauty of a language. Especially in English much of poetry is the art of choosing the right word. I love the way T.S. Eliot puts it towards the end of his poem &quot;Little Gidding&quot;:<p><pre><code>  And every phrase
  And sentence that is right (where every word is at home,
  Taking its place to support the others,
  The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,
  An easy commerce of the old and the new,
  The common word exact without vulgarity,
  The formal word precise but not pedantic,
  The complete consort dancing together)
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So please, if you want to criticize a language at all, let&#x27;s stick to the objective side as far as possible. German grammar is difficult, English pronunciation can be utterly confusing - I&#x27;ll grant that. But let&#x27;s not talk about any &quot;bad natural languages&quot;. Because there is beauty to be found in every tongue.