Paul Bartlett | Re: “Selling” an auxlang.

• Autor: Paul Bartlett (“bartlett22183”)
• Tema: Re: “Selling” an auxlang.
• Data: 2007-12-04 01:13
• Mesaje: 2436 (presedente, seguente)

Crossposted as a courtesy to AUXLANG and the Lingua Franca Nova lists.

Concerning Lingua Franca Nova.

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Risto Kupsala wrote on AUXLANG:

> [trim]

>>> This is certainly not a Eurolang. In
>>> fact it's far less European than Panamerikan.
>
> There are numerous Eurocentric features: articles, plural, use of copula,
> word derivation, ce/ci functioning as both interrogative and relative
> pronouns, idiomacies... Almost everywhere I look I can see European model.
> It's a Eurolang, and where it's not, it's a Eurocreole.
>
> I'm not saying that LFN is not any good, I like the way it's influenced by
> creoles, but calling it "structurally very neutral", as Dana did, was
> wrong. Anyway, LFN is a step in the right direction.

I remember some time ago tangling with George Boeree.  LFN, like
English and at least some other Indo-European languages, uses the same
forms for both interrogative and relative pronouns/adjectives.  I
suggested that it would be clearer and simpler to have distinct forms
for the two uses.  Boeree, seemingly wedded to English/I-E usage,
scratched his head and wondered how having more words could be simpler.
But the users of LFN, if it is to be a truly worldwide conIAL, simply
must realize that LFN must not be a slave to English/I-E usage.  It
just could be that more could be simpler.

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Paul Bartlett