europidgin | Re: Summing up?
Thanks a lot George!
I think that your summing up was needed. And looking back on the many suggestions and ideas I also think that it's a fair compromise. Especially I like that George give space for optional elements.
Although we still have some unsolved questions, which have to be solved when we go along. I suggest that we all accept this summing up for now. We can always take things up again if something seems awkward when we start to use Pijin for communication.
It would be very nice if someone will write a useful grammar for beginners. Or even better if we could produce some lessons for beginners teaching both grammar and the basic vocabulary. That would be something really new. It is very seldom that a constructed language has some real lessons.
I doubt if 5-600 words are quite enough. But let us try and see. Even if we end up with say around 1000 words people know a lot of the words already, so it should not be that difficult to learn.
It's not important if we have two or three layers as long as it is possible learn things step by step and especially that it's possible to use Pijin already from step one.
All my best
Bjorn