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Re: Uusisuom's influences

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Sunday, April 1, 2001, 9:25
> >The last thing anyone can call Uusisuom is a 'Euroclone'. In terms of > >being > >an international auxiliary language, it has a hell of a lot going for it: > >beautiful design, inherent simplicity, uniqueness and distinctiveness and > >complete neutrality.
You can't really satisfy everyone: arguably the phonology of the language is advantageous to Fennophones which are not exactly a world majority. This reflects the author's approval of the Finnish aesthetic. But Esperanto, on the other hand, which has phonemes common to a reasonable amount of *common* world languages prove difficult to certain ethnic groups. Personally, I feel that IALs are not really getting anywhere and perhaps a language that is already spoken by much of the world (hint, hint) should, as is the case today be used for much global transaction. I bet there are a myriad of IALs that are not going to ever get off the ground, some of which are very beautiful languages in themselves. If I were this language's creator I would have designed it as an artlang/conlang as opposed to an auxlang, because aesthetically, I think it is quite beautiful, but then again, "de gustibus non est disputandum". But then I'm not the creator and I can't influence others very well... To sum it up, *nothing* can be completely neutral ... except for those philosophical a priori languages perhaps...but hey, where's the aesthetic appeal? One part of a language can be easier to understand for a certain group of people while proving disadvantageous to another. That's why I design conlangs instead...to appeal to my *own* personal tastes. Thus the dilemma of an international auxiliary language. Total unrecognisability but universal neutrality or ease of learning for certain groups and the opposite for others? That's my two cents. Imperative "Siamo la coppia piu' bella del mondo E ci dispiace per gli altri Che sono tristi e sono tristi Perche' non sanno piu' cos'e' l'amor!"

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