Re: CHAT: another new language to check out
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 5:03 |
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:20:56 -0700, Jim Grossmann <jimg4732@...> wrote:
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> 4. Your FAQ says that Aiola's vocabulary was derived from English,
> Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German, along with three
> constructed languages. Such a vocabulary is hardly neutral, especially now
> that the EU is a reality.
I was also surprised that the only conversation I looked at ended with
something along the lines of "vidos vu", which seems a word-for-word
idiomatic translation of English "See you".
> 5. The distinctive features of Aiola are not distinctive. Every
> proposed AIAL and its brother boasts phonemic spelling along with simple &
> consistent conjugations and declensions.
What's an AIAL? Specifically, what's the first A stand for? "Another"
International Auxiliary Language?
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>