Re: A Conlang, created by the group?

On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Mathias M. Lassailly wrote:

> Charles wrote :
>
> > I have been re-reading a very interesting
> > critique of Esperanto; and in this section ...
> >
> http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto.html#f
>
> Hey, hold on, Charles : I didn't criticize Zamenhof.
Too late ... his lawyers are coming after you!

> > > If the 850 words of "Basic English" are sufficient for encyclopaedias,
> > > any language designed from the ground up
> > > could in principle get by with a one-page dictionary.*
>
> Maybe. But I feel slightly differently though
Now it will be Ogden's lawyers, too ...

> I develop that issue in my following pages :
>
> http://members.aol.com/lassailly/ial.html
> http://members.aol.com/lassailly/ial2.html
Whether or not it is really possible to make
a "complete" basic vocabulary, such word lists
are valuable to lazy conlangers like me.