europidgin | Re: Introducing myself
Hi Kevin,
--- In europidgin@y..., "kevinbsmith" <yahoogroups@q...> wrote:
> I like simplicity,
I agree! Let us follow the KISS principle. You know: Keep It Simple Stupid ;-)
>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.
As a starting point I believe that something like 5-600 root would be perfect. My first experience in English was through the 850 words Basic English. But one never stops with such a limited vocabulary. It is much easier to buy an orange than a "round yellow thing".
> I slightly dislike the idea of people
> posting in any (Romance-based)
> language of their choice.
I might be wrong but, I believe that a pidgin language can develop from a sort of trial-and-error-method. I also belive that people writing LFN, Romanova, and Interlingua easily will understand one another. I guess it will be more difficult when it comes to Ido, Novial etc.
The most important in my opinion is that we somehow get started to speak and write a pidgin instead of talking and writing about a pidgin.
> Here are my own language projects
Interesting projects - really.
> which I hope
> will become irrelevant as europidgin evolves.
It would be very nice if we could begin to overcome the babel of IAL-projects.
Bjorn