the line between constructed and natural languages can be really blurry sometimes, like modern hebrew for example

a LOT of different forms of classical hebrew came and went and sometimes coexisted, in the 3000 or so years of judaism before zionism began; but one person in the 1800s, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, pretty much Created(tm) the modern iteration of hebrew.

He not only standardized the grammar, and not only chose which synonyms to keep or drop, but he also just plain created hundreds of new words for things that a, well, mostly-written liturgical language, didn't quite have. (for example: omelette, immigration, restaurant, train, and ice cream)

But while he was creating that kinda-sorta-conlang, people all around israel/palestine and europe started to use it! So they had all these new words and standardized grammar PRESCRIBED to them from above, but THEN brought in their own language backgrounds, accents, preferences, and personalities when they actually spoke and wrote.

in fact to this day, the Academy For The Hebrew Language (*supervillain riff plays*) still prescribes us various artificial words that sometimes catch on and integrate really well (like ageism /gila'nut/ <גילנות>, solidarity /ax'va/ <אחווה>), but mostly everyone just kinda ignores (like sexism /mina'nut/ <מיננות>, app /yesu'mon/ <יישומון>)

and i think that in a way, emoji kinda do this too. we're all given these shiny, brand new emojis every year, with some prescribed meaning or interpretation that the unicode consortium decides on -- and then we...... sometimes use it that way, and sometimes ignore that completely and create our own meanings.

a good example of this is the contrast between 😂 with its prescribed meaning being the one we use, vs 🍆 with the meaning we all collectively agreed upon after the fact