Re: My new project - comments appreciated

Emily Zilch wrote:

> What's always bothered me about conlangs that are "averaged" versions
> of "common" languages is that they never seem to include the TRULY
> "average" languages. After all, Mandarin is the first tongue for more
> persons than... well, a whole lot. I've always wished to see, um,
> Sino-Fran�ais or Melayu-Suomen: some lucky minority language matched up
> with a real numerically powerful tongue.

That's true. The purpose of this project, of course, isn't to be an
Auxlang. It's to see how far I can stretch the language-averaging power.
I picked the languages I did because they're English's closest
relatives. I'm going to claim that this isn't actually a new language.
Simply a language that no-one noticed before. So, what I'm wanting to
know is...will anyone be able to understand it, who doesn't know any of
the other languages.

>
> After all, you know that if Mars is colonised that those who are going
> to emigrate aren't going to be Germans and Americans, they're going to
> be droves of, um, the appropriate equivalent of modern-day
> Palestinians, Eritreans, Javanese and the like. Wish I spoke Finnish...
>
So do I, so do I.