George Boeree | goals

• Autor: George Boeree (“cgboeree”)
• Tema: goals
• Data: 2002-09-23 13:33
• Mesaje: 195 (presedente, seguente)

Hello, everyone.

I was away this weekend, and found myself barraged by 50 emails -- half
of them from this group!  As I read them, I was struck by some of the
discussion:  With the changes we have made so far, many new problems
have arisen!  for example, before the changes, we had io/me/ma, which
allowed clarity in regards to occasional word-order exceptions allowed
because so many languages allow them, and clarity in regards to when we
have a possessive and when not.  As I pointed out years ago in the faqs
section of the LFN pages, I chose io/me/ma (etc) for good reasons in the
first place!

On the other hand, we are seeing a variety of emails with agendas
different from what we started out with:  some want something more like
lojban, some want another version of esperanto, some want the original
lingua franca...  This is getting frustrating to me.  I am very confused
as to why someone who really prefers esperanto or nuova lingua franca
would join this group and try to convert others to their way of
thinking!  Isn't easier and more enjoyable to speak with people who
already share your goals?  And how can anyone belong to more than one of
these groups?  Wouldn't you be spending your whole day reading email?

Anyway, I think that some of the problems would be fixed by using mi,
tu, and el rather than me, te, and le.  The length of the list of -va
and -ra words Kevin sent does suggest that perhaps we would be better
off with a particle.  Pa and fa, however, are too artificial for a
naturalistic language.  My earlier suggestion of e for the past is
indeed ambiguous.  So may I suggest ai for the past, and va for the
future?   Also, I suggested eliminating the -da and -nte endings in
pijin, but I think the inconvenience of sentence reconstructions is far
greater than the small inconvenience of learning what all European
languages do anyway!

Best wishes,

George

PS.  Incidently, I was sending my emails in html before, which
apparently some of your email programs can't use, so I will send my
emails in both html and plaintext from now on.  I hope that helps.  The
graphics, on the other hand, are not from me, they are from yahoo
groups.