kevinbsmith | Introducing myself
- Autor: kevinbsmith
- Tema: Introducing myself
- Data: 2002-09-13 01:10
- Mesaje: 28 (presedente, seguente)
Greetings all. My primary IAL background is with Glosa, and I prefer isolating structure over conjugations. I support using Romance roots as a starting point, because they are familiar to a large number of people already, through native speech, scientific terms, and to some degree, through English. I like simplicity, and therefore I dislike languages that have too many root words. I believe a fully functional IAL only needs about 600 roots to cover over 90% of basic communication. So if this group develops a small pidgin first, I would be happy, and would probably be content to stop there. LFN is my favorite Euro-style IAL. I do find it to be bigger and more complex than I would like. I would be very happy if it's syntax became similar to Glosa (but keeping Romance roots). I slightly dislike the idea of people posting in any (Romance-based) language of their choice. While I can generally understand postings in various languages, it is difficult, and I can easily misinterpret them. I would prefer that people stick to English and europidgin when possible. Perhaps we could come up with some tools that would autotranslate popular IAL's into europidgin to make it easier for people to post. Here are my own language projects, which I hope will become irrelevant as europidgin evolves. 1. I tried to clean up Glosa (I think I did some valuable work, but I have given up on this): http://qualitycode.com/html/glosa.eng.html 2. Tasu (formerly known as Glo), my Glosa reform project which mostly moves it toward Romance roots. I am not currently actively working on this. Note the Tasu <-> LFN word lists: http://tasu.org adeo, Kevin