Re: CHAT: another new language to check out

My assumption is that a concerted effort to put Aiola into use would create
the best opportunities for improving its grammar and vocabulary.

If ARG settles on its existing design features for the time being, and
concentrates all its efforts on getting people to use Aiola, first
ARG-internally and then in other environments, eventual design improvements
will be dictated by the demands of actual discourse, rather than
interminable a priori auxlang debates.

Why not just use an existing AIAL?  History.  Volapuek died at least partly
from squabbles over how it should be used.   The Esperanto movement is mired
in pointless disagreements about design and pie-in-the-sky visions of
grass-roots promotion.  The other "universal" languages are just as obscure
as Aiola, so why shouldn't ARG just use Aiola?  After all, ARG members are
more likely to work hard for a project that they themselves have created
than they would for, say, Solresol.

Don't get me wrong;  I understand that promoting an AIAL is a quixotic
venture at best.  But if ARG is going to take up this challenge, it might as
well break with auxlang tradition, and take Aiola for a good long test drive
before fussing with design revisions.

Jim G.

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Original message from And Rosta.

Why would this make Aiola (or any IAL) *good*? You say that Aiolans
shouldn't fret that Aiola does pretty much what the other twenty
thousand IALs do. But it strikes me that the one and only decent
reason for working on a new IAL is if its design is genuinely better
than other IALs (and natlangs for that matter).

--And.

Jim Grossmann:
> 7. If you really want to Aiola to be as good as it can be, do the
> following:
> a) Get every member of your group fluent in Aiola.
> b) Get every member of your group writing at least a paragraph in
> Aiola every day.
> c) Conduct all internal ARG communication-written and spoken-in
> Aiola.
> d) Make sure that some of your group members are bilingual or
> multi-lingual. Have these group members form Aiola chapters in other
> countries, so that Aiola can be actually used within your international
> organization among people without a common natural language.
> f) Come up with intelligent plans for promoting the use of Aiola
> for recreation, commerce, and other purposes in groups outside the ARG.