Paul Bartlett | Re: [LFN] is LFN superfluous ?

• Autor: Paul Bartlett (“bartlett22183”)
• Tema: Re: [LFN] is LFN superfluous ?
• Data: 2005-06-07 22:14
• Mesaje: 1330 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, George Boeree wrote:

> The source of vocabulary is totally irrelevant to an IAL, Paul.

     I have mixed feelings about the extent to which I agree or disagree
with this.  Certainly, insofar as there is an auxiliary language
"movement," there are those who will *not* agree with this.  There is
also a serious matter of perception.  Recently on another mailing list
someone asked if there were any new IAL projects under way.  I
responded with a post about Lingua Franca Nova and gave the URL to the
website and referred to this list.  One response it brought was
"please, not another euroclone."  This poster was willing to dismiss LFN
out of hand.  Of course, there is an issue of the significance of the
IAL movement as such.  Some people would take the position that the
movement itself is not particularly important -- or even important at
all -- and I actually tend to agree with this position.  For example,
there are a lot of users of Esperanto who probably do not identify with
or even care about (if they even know of) the IAL movement.  I see the
real issue as the extent to which an IAL can be promoted on its own.
Esperanto has been, but it has a long history behind it.

--
Paul Bartlett