europidgin | Too many different projects?

• Autor: europidgin
• Tema: Too many different projects?
• Data: 2002-09-15 23:25
• Mesaje: 59 (presedente, seguente)

We already have a lot of interesting discussions. This is good and I
hope the discussions will continue. But I also think that we somehow
have too many different projects here.

The EuroPidgin project is to establish a comunity of people speaking
and writing a Romance language based on Lingua Franca Nova. No more,
no less. But it is not the project to design a new or completely
different language.

LFN is so far the work of one person.  Now where it is going to be
the language of a comunity, it is both natural and necessary that
some details will be discussed and even changed. Of course we should
discuss better and simpler solutions to differnt linguistic problems.
And of course we should make the language easy to beginners. But we
can also discuss to much and gain too little.

Looking back at the history of constructed languages it seems like
each new project always inspires a lot of discussions and several
improved projects in a never ending process. If we really want the
idea and the dream of a common IAL to come through we have to stop
looking for perfect solutions. We have to accept a language that is
"good enough".

I believe that LFN basicly is "good enough", that we mainly just need
to make it easy to learn for beginners, especially for beginners
without a background in one of the Romance languages.

Hope we can agree on that.

Bjorn