Translated meaning isn't enough?  So I suppose all those translations of Shakespeare in to hundreds of human languages isn't enough either; and anyone who claims Shakespeare can be appreciated in anything but English is just "lying to himself and others" (as you said in an earlier post).<p>Sure, any young language isn't going to have a rich history of expressions weighed down with meaning.  But I don't think that has anything to do with whether the language is deliberately invented or not.  With time, assuming the language is used by a significant number of people, it will acquire such a history.<p>Still, while young languages don't have a rich history compared to older languages, they have other advantages (of which Lojban has plenty).<p>Also remember that the history that has accrued to older languages is a double-edged sword.  Because of this "baggage" it's sometimes difficult to express precisely what you mean without being misunderstood (or perhaps to even know what you mean -- see the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis).  Lojban is designed to help overcome such difficulties.<p>The other thing to note is that the weighty phrases like "wherefore art thou Romeo?" aren't used very much in everyday speech.  It's not like we go around constantly quoting Shakespeare at one another (except occasionally for effect, or humor).  We generally communicate using rather simple language and concepts that should have no problem being expressed in even a young (but expressive) language like Lojban.