ravendon | Re: [LFN] The future
I agree that English won't be supplanted. Probably ever, unless the US, Britain and all other English speaking countries fall severely down the ladder of international relevance.
The only way for any auxlang to succeed is for some international organization of sufficient weight and respect adopts it. Then other organizations may follow, which will lead to a cascade of acceptance.
In what areas has English gained a foothold and eventual dominance?
Business. Religion. Science. Medical. Sports.
What would happen if we could get the Vatican to adopt an auxlang other than Latin or alongside Latin? Perhaps, complete a bible in LFN like they are doing with Interlingua and Esperanto? Religion can be a way to get a foothold.
Or if the Olympics adopted LFN as the official aux lang of the games?
Or maybe the Red Cross and the Red Crescent could use it, which is a long shot since English and Arabic are so dominant.
I know the United Nations have been toying with the idea of an auxlang for a while now.
If the UN adopted LFN as the official aux lang than that would be a HUGE step.
Even if we could get LFN adopted as a language on manuals alongside Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, it would be very good. People would see it and perhaps be curious about it and seek out more info.
Does LFN have any official PR dept. working on stuff such as this? It would be nice if a business or political organization could request more info and get sent material or maybe get things translated for them.
Do we have an irc channel where people can come and chat or maybe a java client on the LFN website that people can use to enter a chat room and learn in real time?
Or maybe an official LFN twitter? I've been twittering more info about LFN and using the #LFN #LinguaFrancaNova hash tags, more and more.
And we could also learn and adopt other tactics from different auxlangs such as Esperanto and Interlingua. LFN Radio? LFN irc channel? LFN newsletter? LFN twitter? LFN YouTube?
Man, it would be great if we could get LFN moving until it eventually takes over the world.
--- In LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com, Paul Bartlett <bartlett@...> wrote:
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> On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Steven wrote:
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> > Having investigated a number of different conlangs in the past few
> > weeks, I can honestly say that, despite its apparent lack of
> > popularity, LFN is by far the easiest to speak, and I think that is
> > absolutely vital in instigating the development of an international
> > auxiliary language. I'm not expert, but LFN is certainly the one I
> > choose to learn because of its ease of use, and I will continue to
> > learn it, despite its apparent unpopularity.
>
> I have just addressed in anther response just a few minutes ago. If
> you want Lingua Franca Nova to succeed (and I encourage you if you have
> interest), it will take serious effort to push against the momentum of
> English -- the most successful international auxiliary language in
> history!! (just not a constructed one) -- and Esperanto, which probably
> has more active users that all other conIALs put together.
>
> --
> Paul Bartlett
>