En réponse à Eamon Graham <robertg@...>:
> Hi folks,
>
> Without getting in to an IAL discussion, does anyone else think
> Ethnologue's latest inclusion of three auxlangs to be ... I dunno
> ... a little odd?
Just checked it. Oddness is the word indeed :)) .
I say odd because it gives France as the country
> where Esperanto and Interlingua are spoken. I think it's great that
> the two are included - as they are real spoken languages (merits and
> demerits aside), but I think saying "France" is where they are
> spoken is a little odd. Why France? Is there something the rest of
> my fellow frogs aren't telling me? Christophe??
>
Not that I know of. France is not even the country where Esperanto is most
successful!
> What strikes me as even odder is its inclusion - at all - of
> "Europanto." Ethnologue says it's spoken in "European Union
> buildings" in Brussels "for use among members of the European
> Union." Wasn't Europanto a parody and not meant to be serious?
>
Well, the "creator" of Europanto claims that this language has been born
naturally by people of different European languages having to work together in
the European Union buildings, so it's not completely wrong. Although the
Ethnologue seems to have taken it a bit *too* seriously for what it really
is :)) .
But what shocked me was when they claimed that Esperanto had a dative suffix
in -al, and that it had a genitive!! I really wonder who did this review,
because it's certainly not done very seriously (on the other hand, the
demographics are OK).
>
> I'm going to see if I can get the editors to consider adding
> "Eamonglish."
>
In this case they'll have to accept Christophrançais! ;))
Christophe.
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