Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?
| From: | Kenneth Asad <kenneth_asad@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 2, 2009, 0:17 |
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I agree, that a common world-language (auxlang) ought not be realized at the
expense of natlangs :-)
Now, consider this:
Usually when a discourse concerns an auxlang/worldlang, the notion is /an/
auxlang, i.e. /one/ language...
But what if it is not a matter of /one/ but /some/.
Maybe there needs to be 3 or 7 or 5 or 13 seperate auxlangs(?)
E.g. some kind of division of the continuum between synthetic and aglutinative and
analytical etc. languages(?)
Say there needs to be 5 auxlangs, then imagine person A travelling the world and meeting person B;
at first A adresses B, in lang 1 and B answers A in lang 4; then A rhetorically
and contextually shifts between lang 1 and lang 3, and B rhetorically and
contextually shifts between lang 2 and lang 4; finally they both end up adressing
and answering each other in lang 5...
... Yeah, I know... One can but dream of such a liberal world... Free from
chauvinism in any form...
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 19:00:03 -0400
> From: Espero9@AOL.COM
> Subject: Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?
> To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
>
> Tsiasuk-Pron here. New to the list! Ukhese sabatyaru! Greetings to you
> all!
>
> A common language would be great but it does not have to be at the expense
> of other languages, I would think.
>
>
> In a message dated 4/1/2009 5:10:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> tony@ALURHSA.ORG writes:
>
> Lars Finsen wrote:
> > Den 31. mar. 2009 kl. 22.32 skreiv Mark J. Reed:
> >
> >> Why must there be a "point" to the variety of languages? Can't things
> >> just be, without all having to fit into some master plan? The variety
> >> is interesting of itself.
> >
> > Variety is charming. It makes linguists busy. Maybe that's enough of a
> > point after all. But from a practical point of view it really would have
> > been much better if we all used the same language - unless the different
> > manifestations of language do have the ability to enrich our
> > communication and understanding in practical ways.
> >
> > LEF
>
> From a practicality standpoint I agree. In my conworld, Alurhsa
> replaced, over time, all the pre-unification languages to where it's the
> only one spoken (other than hobbyists and such who might even
> occasionally raise a child bilingually with Alurhsa and one of the old
> tongues). And I agree it would be very nice for the Earth (can you tell
> I've been an Esperantist?).
>
> At the same time, I do think each language carries with it the "soul" of
> its speakers, so to speak. Language flavors culture as much as culture
> flavors language.
>
> Or so I think anyway, in my non-scientific viewpoint...
>
>
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