Re: OT: babel and english

Obviously no universal metric exists- the thing is
that this is a very small population here that would
want an auxlang, so it can fairly easily relate to all
our linguistic abilities and maybe be instantly
recognizable to sight (something like interlingua).
But like I said before, it would be cool, but I
wouldn't waste time on it and I don't think anyone
else will, and it's not really necessary.

By diverse crowd I meant people who are native in
other languages and have very little grasp of english

Oh and on another note, it seems interlingua is in
heavy use in the auxlang group. Anyone who knows both
English and a little bit of a Romance language can
read it no problem, but I think it can be a tad
annoying to take 5 seconds for each sentence

-Samuel Rivier

>...
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > Ah, but that's the problem! At the risk of
> starting another
> > flame, no universally accepted metric exists to
> provide the
> > kind of attractiveness that you're describing.
> That's why,
> > of course, a whole list was spun off from this
> one, precisely
> > because people never seemed to be able to agree on
> the
> > most important criteria.
>
> Also, the crowd we've got is (for the most part) a
> very nice crowd;
> if we'd attract all kinds of weirdos I don't know
> whether I'd stay.
> I left the conlang list in (I think) 1995 exactly
> because all the
> auxlang flaming, and didn't come back until years
> later when the
> auxlang list was already in existence.
>
>    Irina
>
> --
>            Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet
> rastynay.
> irina@valdyas.org (myself)
> http://www.valdyas.org/irina/valdyas
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