Re: New Guy

On Friday, November 28, 2003, at 09:42 PM, Caleb Hines wrote:

> // If this appears twice, sorry! Its my first post to the list. //
>
> Hi folks. I'm new to the list. (Been listening in now for about a
> week). I've got two languages that I'm working on.
Hi! welcome aboard.
[snap]

> interesting setting. Basically, its spoken by one of the people
> groups who are dispersing from the Tower of Babel. The language is an
> isolate, like Basque,
which, of course, was the pre-Babel language  :-)

> snip][
> To change topic, I was noticing some of the discussion about
> auxlangs,
best thing, IMO!

> loglangs, artlangs, and natlangs. I don't really care much
> for auxlangs, except to the extent that English seems to be becoming
> pretty universal as an international language. But if people insist
> on having a non-English auxlang, what's wrong with Latin?
You're treading into a minefield here. Best leave questions like that
to Auxland.

> It worked
> well for centuries from the Pax Romana, right up through the
> Rennaissance. Scientists still tend to use it as a sort of
> international naming language, right? Not that I really care.
Stick with Akathanu - more interesting.

Ray
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