Jacques DEHEE | Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] Introducing myself…
- Autor: Jacques DEHEE (“”)
- Tema: Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] Introducing myself…
- Data: 2002-11-25 12:04
- Mesaje: 403 (presedente, seguente)
Dear Héctor, I am myself a new member. I am preparing a new translation into French of the LNF vocabulary (about 1000 words translated already, provisorily) The previous translation, present on the LNF sites, was made before my arrival in the list by a disappointing software. Before learning LNF, I learnt Esperanto and Interlingua. I was just invited today by a young Italian friend, Daniele Nicolucci, to participate to a new forum (http ://www.linguamundi.sogno.net) about auxiliary language. I intend to defend there the ideas of LFN and perhaps attract from it new members for LFN. Friendly, Jacques >Messsage du 25/11/2002 09:01 >De : <LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com> >A : <LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com> >Copie à : >Objet : [LinguaFrancaNova] Introducing myself... > > 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. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > LinguaFrancaNova-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >