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Re: A Conlang, created by the group?

From:charles <catty@...>
Date:Friday, October 9, 1998, 22:04
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.