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Re: Which auxlangs? (was Re: I won't start a flame war)

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 9, 1999, 0:23
Don Blaheta wrote:

> > I'd say I dislike your selection of auxlangs.
> Everyone has their favourite. Mine's Novial. But I don't think it > should necessarily go on the shirt. Here's my semi-objective reasoning > for the choices I gave:
The point is that it is too political an issue to decide that way.
> > Or, use a true conlang-auxlang, Jay's "Ekspreso", to represent all > > auxlangs. > > I'm really not sure what you mean by a "true" conlang-auxlang; all the > ones I listed are conlang-auxlangs (as opposed to, say, English, Lingua > Franca, Tok Pisin, or Mandarin).
I meant an auxlang designed by a current CONLANG-lister. There is a second one, the Limousin-Italian-variant by Matthias.
> It would, however, be a fine idea to > replace Interlingua with a romance-based auxlang created by a list > member... I don't remember if Ekspreso meets the romance-based > criterion, though. (Not that it matters. If Jay created it, it's fair > game for the shirt *regardless* of any other concerns.)
Exactly. And it looks pretty much like the other euroclones, though slightly more pidginish. I really do not want Interlingua advertised at the expense of Occidental. Nor Esperanto. But if Glosa and OCC and Ido can be included, I think that's all the living auxlangs worth worrying about.