Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: OT: babel and english

From:Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 21, 2001, 2:57
"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!). =================================== Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier "Aspidi men Saiôn tis agalletai, hên para thamnôi entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn; autos d' exephugon thanatou telos: aspis ekeinê erretô; exautês ktêsomai ou kakiô" - Arkhilokhos

Reply

andrew <hobbit@...>