hgparedess | Introducing myself…

• Autor: hgparedess
• Tema: Introducing myself…
• Data: 2002-11-25 09:01
• Mesaje: 402 (presedente, seguente)

Dear friends:

I would like to offer myself to help in the translation into Spanish
of the vocabulary of LNF/EP. My mother tongue is Spanish, and I am
very interested in the topics of IALs.

For many months, (about three years by now), I've been reading and
studying all I could find in the net about international auxiliary
languages, and also about the (not so easy) relation between
orthography and sound in the case of English.

(The reformation of English's orthography is a "good and noble" goal
in my mind, because it is the main obstacle for English to become a
more accessible tool for international communication, and the
principal cause of suffering for us learners of  E. as a second
language, not to mention all those native "not-so-
good-spelling-bees", crashed in the windshields of illiteracy).

To the cynical, all this would indicate that I tend to gravitate
toward lost causes, but it is mostly for the intelectual joy of
observing minds at work, and not for its practical "secondary
effect", that I started to search for all this.

I have enjoyed the frequent flashes of intelligence and insight that
the participants in the bulletin boards, and creators of the sites
I've visited display before their readers, and deplored the weird,
emotional and some times, plainly irrational blurbs of "fanatical
promoters of their pet projects".

So, I have become familiar with the great works and ideas of Jay
Bowks, James Chandler, Kevin B. Smith, Paul O. Bartlett and others
like them, and in this process, I've found about Interlingua,
Romanova, Occidental, Ido, Folkspraak, Loglan/Lojban, Glosa, Tasu,
etc., and also about the strange, beautiful and funny florations of
fictional languages and, yes, even about Esperanto. (This one I can
read and understand, although not so much write, and I've been
listening to Radio Polonia's transmissions once or twice a week for
about a year by now).

I guess all this make me a language freak without any hope of
rehabilitation.

I have no strong preference for any IAL, finding them all, more or
less adequate for basic communication, but I tend to prefer
regularity and simplicity as the "reasons-to-be" of such creations,
with beauty a close third. For me, all of them are examples of the
creativity of the human mind, with strong points and weak ones, like
any tools we can use in other realms of our lives.

During those months I used to visit the homepage of Dr. Boeree, to
see if something new appeared, because I liked the sounds and feeling
of his creation a lot. I comforted myself from the frustration of not
finding something new by reading his writings about psychology and
Buddhism.

So with great joy I have found this group.

I have taken my time to read all the messages so far, because I found
the group's name slightly misleading, and wanted to be sure of its
direction.

I better finish here, but not without warmly thanking Bjorn Madsen
for starting this group.

Sincerely

Héctor G. Paredes Sitten.