Paul Bartlett | Re: AW: [LFN] INEPENDENT OR FINAL

• Autor: Paul Bartlett (“bartlett22183”)
• Tema: Re: AW: [LFN] INEPENDENT OR FINAL
• Data: 2005-06-06 23:04
• Mesaje: 1310 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, George Boeree wrote:

> Hello, Martin.
>
> Although I have a special affection for LFN, I do not really care which
> language is adopted.  I only think it would be a wonderful thing if one
> actually was!  It could be esperanto or interlingua, or it could be
> english or spanish, or it could be haitian or romany!  Of course, it
> would be better if it were LFN :-)

     Despite being a somewhat-interlinguaist (i.e., that is the
auxiliary language I have done most with) but not really committed to
any, I agree with George here that it would be beneficial to the world
if *some* language, "natural" or constructed, came into general use as
an international auxiliary language.  English looks like a hot
candidate, and as an educated native speaker I would not have to learn
anything. :^)  At the same time, having been around the constructed
auxiliary language movement for some years, I am in favor of a
constructed language.  I myself am not particularly a fan of Esperanto,
but if it were Esperanto or nothing, I would certainly back Esperanto
(despite never having really mastered it).  However, I think that there
is still a sort of window of opportunity open, but advocates of other
conIALs have a lot of work cut out for themselves.  If LFN is going to
fly, its advocates are going to have to some to some agreements on the
form of the language and do a lot of vigorous wing flapping.

--
Paul Bartlett