James Chandler | Re: [europidgin] IAL Basis

• Autor: James Chandler (“idojc”)
• Tema: Re: [europidgin] IAL Basis
• Data: 2002-09-13 08:49
• Mesaje: 32 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

Paul:

>     It should be no surprise to James that I am not especially in favor
>of this.  For other members of this list, I was a member of the IAL
>Basis Project for some time but recently left it.  I myself am not
>necessarily in favor of applying a preconceived straightjacket to a new
>project just because of the way some languages were structured in the
>past.

And it will come as no surprise to Paul that I do not agree with this
characterization of the Project or its results.  The RefList languages were
developed over a 100-year period.  If we condemn all these languages as
being 'in the past', then we are left with only those invented since 1981.

The RefList languages actually span a wide range of diverse systems, from
Esp to Ia to Glosa.  That a feature is found across all 7 languages should
have some significance for us as language designers.

Kordiale, James Chandler
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Sciences 3

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