Christophe wrote:
> En réponse à Eamon Graham > > 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 :)) .
>
(schnip)
> > 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 :)) .
>
Oh. And here I'd been thinking, those folks at SIL are finally developing a
sense of humor........:-)))))))))