scaramouche_54 | [LFN] Re: New LFN
Multe grasias per tu clari, Jorj! Personal, me trova ce elefen es un
bela lingua, e me ne vole ce la basal strutur cambia.
scaramux
--- In LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com, George Boeree <cgboeree@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi, all!
>
> I don't really think we need to worry about the issue of
> "fundamentos" and "academies". If you go to http://lfn.wikia.com/wiki/
> LFN_grammar_(English) , you will find a detailed outline of the
> grammar of LFN. The basics have not changed in many years, but we
> have examined many details of usage in long discussions (documented
> in our "archives") and laid out the ways in which LFN deals with
> ambiguities of complex communication. I suppose this could be
> considered a "fundamento". We will be adding more examples, and
> further developing the LFN version (which is actually the official
> grammar) in the next few months.
>
> What has changed is the dictionary. As some of us write articles for
> the wiki, or communicate with each other in other ways, we come
> across needed words and expressions. Although "rules" for new words
> are not written down, there are some clear guidelines, such as
> derivation from existing words (with affixes and compounds), similar
> words used by all or most of the romance languages, words that are a
> part of international scientific vocabulary, words that are tied to
> particular cultures (from "taco" to "txaumen"), simple expressions
> that can be used, and so on. We have tried to, as much as humanly
> possible, to not introduce new words where old ones do the job just
> as well.
>
> Please feel free to play with the language, or even create new ones.
> But LFN is LFN! :-)
>
> Jorj
>
> No trees were harmed in the creation of this post. However, many
> electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
>
> 
>
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 6:34 AM, haf_euro_binet wrote:
>
> > I don't think a "Fundamento" is the right way, because that leads
> > to the other extreme of unchangeability. The best way I could think
> > of is to have an "academy" or committee to approve changes. Then
> > there would be "board approved LFN" and thousands of deviations and
> > that is a clear landscape for everybody.
> >
> >
> >
>
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