Paul O. Bartlett | Re: [LFN] La gramatica completa

• Autor: Paul O. Bartlett (“bartlett22183”)
• Tema: Re: [LFN] La gramatica completa
• Data: 2005-05-10 19:59
• Mesaje: 1167 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Antonio Carlos R. da Fonseca wrote:

>>      Except..............
>> .............LFN is just another example
>> of western language imperialism.
>
> You´re a little bitter! :(

     I am not bitter.  The bitterness might be on the part of those
outside the western language orbit (what Leo Moser called the WENSA
languages).  Some of such people might complain to the effect, "Why
should a global auxiliary language be based solely on the western
languages (and a small subset of the western languages at that)?"

> If the non-IE people wishes to fight against IE imperealism they
> have to learn such languages :)

     I do not see that this follows at all.  Why should a billion
Sino-Tibetan speakers and possibly several hundred million Dravidian
speakers have to learn Indo-European languages just to have a
complaint?

     Lingua Franca Nova is a legitimate offering as an auxiliary
language.  I am not saying that it is not.  However, if it is to be a
truly global auxiliary, then at some time there are going to have to be
didactic materials for people with non-Indo-European language habits.
(I grant, of course, that LFN is still young.)

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Paul O. Bartlett

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