Sometimes, some of us feel a lot of pressure to make our conlangs naturalistic, especially if it's a posteriori. When we're starting out and start mingling with other conlangers the experience often enforces the idea that a good conlang must be naturalistic.

Of course, a good conlang is both:

1. Subjective

2. Not dependent on naturalism, but rather the goal set for it.

So if you have a conlang that turns its nose up at what makes sense, what 'should be' when it comes to natural languages, tell us about it.

I've never been concerned with naturalism, so none of my conlangs I would classify as naturalistic, but most of my conlangs are a priori anyway. My current WIP is a posteriori though and exists in an AU where the Norse that temporarily settled in Newfoundland stayed permanently, their population grew, and they started trading goods, culture, and language with the indigenous populations to the north, in Labrador.

The languages I've chosen to work with are 1000 years apart - Old West Norse and modern Innu-aimun. Could I use Old Cree instead, which would be less anachronistic and more realistic? Sure! And maybe I will, but I'm particularly attached to Innu-aimun. How does one realistically blend a polysynthetic language and a fusional one? You don't! Or at least I can't/don't care to, I imagine it would take a lot more linguistic knowledge than I have.

Does it make sense that ON verbs conjugate within both language's paradigms? That Innu verbs are used in one context, and the roughly corresponding ON verb in another? No, but it sure does make me happy and that's the only thing that matters.

ᛅᚴᚢᛁ᛬ᛔᛂᛐᛅᚿ᛬ᛐᛌᛁᛐᚮᚿᚵᚮᚱ

Ekuî pêten tsîtungur.

/ˈekwiː ˈpeːten ˈʦiːtuŋguɾ/

[ˈek.wiː ˈpeːt.en ˈʦiːt.uŋk.uɾ]

I want to hear your languages.

ek     -uî  pêt;en                    tsî-     tungur
1SG.NOM-VOL hear.it;1SG.INDEP.IND.PRS 2SG.POSS-language.F.DEF.PL.ACC

English and a Half (EH) is not a conlang but just a constructed variety of English forcefully loaded with phrasal verbs and idioms (but not rhyming slang). Its purpose is to help ESL learners learn idioms and phrasal verbs. The difference between English and "English and a Half" is that it is abundant in force-fit idioms and phrasal verbs for whichever concepts can be expressed using these. The main principle is that it should use idioms and phrasal verbs for words that can be replaced with these.
Why this name: I chose the name "English and a Half" from an idiom that I learned yesterday upon hearing the sentence "That's a question and a half!" on the BBC.

A sample conversation:

A: "Hi, how are you keeping?"

B: "I am ticking over nicely! How are things panning out for you? Are you in the pink of condition?"

C: "My system is pulling through! Thanks for checking up on me."

Ofc ourse, dialects don't work like this, it is way more complex. But this is a kind of generalisation and approximation to this complexity.