James Chandler | Do we really need another eurolanguage?

• Autor: James Chandler (“idojc”)
• Tema: Do we really need another eurolanguage?
• Data: 2002-09-16 12:54
• Mesaje: 68 (presedente, seguente)

It seems I was misled slightly by the name of this list.  I thought it might
indicate that the founders were interested in developing some sort of
systematized pidgin or creole, with a european vocab base.

It now seems that the idea is to either adopt LFN as is, a cut-down version
of it with a limited vocab (Basic LFN?), or adopt it with minor changes.
This leads me to ask:

Do we really need another eurolanguage?

or what some would call 'euroclone'.  We seem to have the
autonomistic-naturalistic spectrum (Jacob) fairly well covered, from Esp to
Ia.  Do we really need to fill in another intermediate point on the
spectrum?  If someone wants to learn a naturalistic language, what is wrong
with Occ, LsF or Ia?

Would it not be better to consider the idea of using this opportunity to
develop a new type of IAL, radically different in some fundamental way from
the ones we already have?

If we are all agreed on a modern european vocab, could we focus our
attention on the grammar, to see if we can produce something really new and
uncharted?

I put it to you,

and I leave it to you

(as Alfred Doolittle would say).

Kordiale, James Chandler
idojc@...
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"The postulation of quarks gives a structure to the proliferation of
subatomic particles, but physicists demand a different sort of evidence in
order to establish the physical reality of quarks." - Gilbert Harman, Two
quibbles about analyticity and psychological reality, Behavorial and Brain
Sciences 3

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