Paul Bartlett | Re: [LFN] Is the lingua-franca-nova.net Site Moribund?

• Autor: Paul Bartlett (“bartlett22183”)
• Tema: Re: [LFN] Is the lingua-franca-nova.net Site Moribund?
• Data: 2010-05-11 01:50
• Mesaje: 3139 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

On Mon, 10 May 2010, George Boeree wrote:

> Hi, Paul.

Thanks for the prompt and courteous answer.

> Yes, I'm afraid we have become a bit quiet of late. Several of us are
> focussed primarily on the wiki, which is our real "main site".

Wikis are "great things," I suppose, but I myself do not participate in
any of them.  I presume if someone wants to learn about a topic, a wiki
may not be the best place for initial information.  (But then, perhaps
I am a late-middle-aged old fuddy-duddy to whom Twitter, MySpace, and
FaceBook are terrae incognitae into which I have never ventured.)  Last
evening, after I made my post, I did download and print off the LFN-
grammar-in-LFN pdf for further look-see.  (I am old-fashioned enough to
like to sit in my easy chair and pet the cat while I peruse a written
text.)  Despite the fact that I have had some differences in the past,
I do genuinely think well of LFN, even if I have not mastered it.  (But
I can read it with almost no difficulty.)  Given the juggernaut of
English, I think that few conIALs have much likelihood of success.
Esperanto is far, far, far in the lead, with Ido and IALA Interlingua
distant seconds/thirds.  Lingua Franca Nova has a lot going for it (and
I mean that sincerely in terms of the quality of the language), but it
does have the issue of dispersal (see my essay on "Thoughts on IAL
Success").  Outside the circle of aficionados, are LFNers talking to
anyone but themselves and a few other auxlangers?

>                                                                 I ran
> the lingua-franca-nova.net site years ago but let the ownership of
> the name lapse. It was, in fact, just a mirror to my
> webspace.ship.edu site. I don't know why the server for the other
> site put the old info back up, but I will look into it.  If I can, I
> will pay up again so it stays current.

The only thing, as I mentioned, is that search engines (I tend to use
Dogpile, a so-called "metasearch" engine which uses multiple engines at
once and weeds out the gazilllions of relatively useless hits) still
refer to Lingua Franca Nova at the "old" site.  However, this is one of
the shortcomings of search engines when things tend to move around.  (I
can speak from experience here.)

> Thanks for noticing - I had forgotten about it!

You're welcome.

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Regards,
Paul Bartlett