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Re: New Arvorec words

From:claudio <claudio.soboll@...>
Date:Friday, June 1, 2001, 22:19
hi
well i have multiple ideas how to start but then on the other hand,
i repeatingly have to see that my ideas already exist in different approaches of
auxlanging.
and auxlanger today must follow two tasks simultaneuously:
to create new ideas on one hand and to explore which ideas are long-standing
on the other hand.
studying all auxlang-material on the internet seems to due about
years.
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anyway i allways see people who like to praise their
one-and-only-complete-language and ask myself:
how can they ever enforce their lang without making any compromisses ?
there is not a single word of e.g. esperanto which is worldwide known.
man could judge: bad marketing. if there is no concretum people can
think of when they hear "esperanto". it lacks an assoziation.
for example: which assoziation does appear in your mind when hearing
about "monika lewinsky". yes you know..shes looking into clinton's
pants. thats what it makes a meaningfull
term/name. concrete-assoziations.
and this is what creates interest/motivation of the public to learn
the lang.
thats the same with klingon-lang. so many people are eager to learn it
because of the concrete assoziation they have from star trek and
thinkin of worf and how strong and tough he is. theyd like to become
as tough as he.
i guess marketing is the first strategy to consider when looking for
speakers of "your" language.
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then i ask: is there always the need for complete languages ?
many auxlanger have some unique ideas of neologisms or syntax mixed up
with just-copies-of-traditional-grammmar.
wouldnt it be more useful to offer such unique-ideas as plugins to
adopt into natural lang's ?
easy to learn , easy to integrate.
why offer a huge system, too huge to be attractive to be learned nad
not single parts of it to adopt as "language-plugins" ?
any of you can try this with an experiment:
speak to your relatives and friends in your mother tongue and
replace single parts of it with parts of your own-synthetic-lang.
they will ask you : what are you speaking of ?
you explain it to them and if you repeat this procedure you will
see that you listeners will respect it , learn it, and even adopt it
after a while WHEN it is a usefull term/grammar.
e.g. you know the situation where people ask another: "what are you
doing?" or "whats up?" a very unlucky and unmotivating question.
they arent really interested in what you are doin but rather mean
"whats in your mind right now?"
so this would be a perfect "neologism" to start with.
create a single short word for this action: "having something in mind
right now" and if the word sound nicely and you use it with ease and
explain it well many people will like it im sure.
everybody is eager to learn new terms.
people have a smile of satisfaction when they learn e.g. such SHORT
and NEUTRAL acronyms like "fci" = frequently changing intercourse.
(in use with people who change their partners frequently)

so my question is are there any attempts to push those
"language-plugins" into any native language already from which man
could improve methods ?

regards,
c.s.