Paul Bartlett | Re: [LFN] Re: Freezing the basic grammar

• Autor: Paul Bartlett (“bartlett22183”)
• Tema: Re: [LFN] Re: Freezing the basic grammar
• Data: 2006-04-30 03:00
• Mesaje: 2122 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Kevin Smith wrote:

> [most trimmed for brevity]

>                           Especially if this new language is hard to
> learn, either because of difficult grammar, or because they have to
> memorize (or look up) thousands of words.
>
> That is why I still believe that the key for a new IAL to surpass
> Esperanto is that it must be extremely easy to learn to read. Part of
> that is being able to memorize or print out a tiny word list
> (500-1000) and with it to be able to read almost any non-technical
> material.

     One of my disappointments with LFN has been this almost weed-like
growth in the vocabulary.  Having some familiarity with Romance enables
me to read much of it at sight, but don't ask me for an active use of
it for now.  There is just too much of it.

--
Paul Bartlett