yrrepaicila | Re: Do we really need another eurolanguage?
- Autor: yrrepaicila
- Tema: Re: Do we really need another eurolanguage?
- Data: 2002-09-16 22:09
- Mesaje: 79 (a supra, presedente, seguente)
I would love the idea of having a modernized "lingua franca" like the one that sailors spoke at ports of call throughout the mediterranean. From what I read of LFN, it could be just that, but maybe tone down the grammar and make it more international by adding things that truly international in Europe, people over there know the meaning of "ok" "boyfriend and girlfriend" "weekend" "barbecue" "computer" "email" "homepage" "knock out" "timeout" etc. etc. What we really need in America is a language that Americans can learn in a "weekend" and use abroad to get a room with a hot bath and get a stake and a beer at a restaurant. :) What's a "euroclone"? I get the impression of a debonaire mini-me with a british accent. :) Alicia "Delicia" Perry --- In europidgin@y..., "James Chandler" <idojc@h...> wrote: > 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@h... > http://www.geocities.com/idojc - IALs index > http://www.geocities.com/idojc/yindex.html - Ido index > > "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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com