George Boeree | Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] Re: Would Lingua Franca Nova help me?

• Autor: George Boeree (“cgboeree”)
• Tema: Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] Re: Would Lingua Franca Nova help me?
• Data: 2002-10-13 16:17
• Mesaje: 334 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

If you like Occitan, LFN should appeal to you, since it was strongly
influenced by Catalan, which, as I am sure you know, is often considered
a co-dialect with Occitan.  I often found that words would have a
French-Italian version and a Spanish-Portuguese version, and Catalan
would be the tie breaker -- going half the time with the one and half
with the other!

I also rather liked the sound of Catalan (and Occitan) -- not as variant
as the French or Portuguese, not as "staccato" as the Italian, not as
"flat" as Spanish, a little free-er with consonant endings (I kept -l,
-r, -n, -m. -f, -s, and -x), and so on.  I think it is unusual for an
auxilliary language in that I gave esthetics some weight in word and
morpheme selection.  Take a look at the translation of the Metta Sutta,
for example, or the poem -- from the Occitan -- I recently sent.  And
since I mentioned it, I noticed a few errors in it, so here it is again:

Si el canta

Si el canta, el canta -
El no canta per me;
El canta per me amada
A distante da me.

A fin de la campo
Es un poplo forida;
La cucu ce canta,
Ala e se nido.

Si el canta, el canta -
El no canta per me;
Canta per me amada
A distante da me

Acel montanias,
Ce es la plu alta,
Impedi me vide,
Do es me amada.

Si el canta, el canta -
El no canta per me;
Canta per me amada
A distante da me

Acel montanias
Alga dia basira;
Esta ora me amada
Revenira a me.

Si el canta, el canta -
El no canta per me;
Canta per me amada
A distante da me

exolinguist wrote:

>  --- In LinguaFrancaNova@y..., "P Bjorn Madsen" <europidgin@y...>
> wrote:
>
> > By the way what is your favorit IAL or Auxlang if any?
> >
>
> The IAL I know best is Esperanto. I've been an esperantist (but a
> rather inactive one) for 40 years. For a while I was doing Nordien
> (would be easy for you, being Danish) but I'm thinking that
> Romance-based is the way to go. Unfortunately, most of them, like
> Interlingua, are not really very easy to learn. One idea I've had is
> to make a language rather heavily weighted toward Occitan (because of
> it's relative neutrality and somewhat good inter-comprehensibility
> with French, Spanish, Italian and Catal¿n. I haven't done it, though.
> Maybe next time I retire I will have time. In the meantime, LFN is
> fun, and I'd like to see where it goes.
>
> --Don
>