Re: OT: babel and english

"Damon M. Lord" wrote:

> Uk 20 uk uk 2001, uk 10:01, bjm10@CORNELL.EDU uk uk uk:
>
> > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Samuel Rivier wrote:
> >
> > > It would be cool if we could have a very very very
> > > easy auxlang here- it would attract a very diverse
> > > crowd
> >
> > I nominate "Uk".  Uk is, without a doubt, the world's simplist
> auxlang.
>
> I object to this. One idea of an IAL is to give no bias to any
> peoples or nations. The British (or those in the UK) would certainly
> be advantaged ;)
This reminds me of the time when my friend, upon learning that
I conlang for sport, suggested that I translate Kant's _Critique
of Pure Reason_ into the eminently logical language of Degaspregos.
Thereupon a second friend said that wouldn't be too hard, since all
you'd have to do is have a maximally fusional language:  the entire
meaning of the Critique could be summed up in the word _po_
(I swear, my friends had not had any alcohol that evening!).

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