George Boeree | Re: [europidgin] Introducing myself
- Autor: George Boeree (“cgboeree”)
- Tema: Re: [europidgin] Introducing myself
- Data: 2002-09-13 19:50
- Mesaje: 34 (a supra, presedente, seguente)
Hello, Kevin. For others, Kevin and I have corresponded a bit before. His Glo project is very interesting -- definitely worth a look for all of us! I agree with some of the comments we've been making: Perhaps we should envision a two- or three-layered approach, with different goals. On one level (the "pidgin"), we might have a flexible pronounciation scheme and a limited vocabulary (following Kevin's lead) of, say, 1000 words. This would be for adults today who need a simple means of communications for travel, email messages, etc. On the second level (the "creole"), would be a language with full pronounciation guidelines, more complex syntax, and a much larger vocabulary. This would be for teaching children (preferably in early school years) a common standard. Perhaps a vocabulary of 5000 words -- enough for newpapers, magazines, and basic business communications. We might then have a third level, with stricter semantic and stylistic guidlelines and an essentially infinite vocabulary, for international and especially technical use (science, medicine, engineering...). This would ultmately be a full second language for everyone! Ah, Utopia, what a nice place! George kevinbsmith wrote: > 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|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|http://tasu.org]] > > adeo, > > Kevin -- C. George Boeree, PhD cgboeree@... www.ship.edu/~cgboeree "I like reality. It tastes of bread." -- Jean Anouilh "Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak." -- Woody Allen