Re: Auxlangs and Orcs' Langs
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 21:32 |
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In a message dated 2004:03:16 08:24:01 PM, m.poxon@VIRGIN.NET writes:
>I seem to remember somewhere in that essay he likens Esperanto to a creation
>of food hygienists rather than cooks, which given his view of such things
>tends to demonstrate his dislike of it (sorry, I don't have the quote to
>hand)
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>Mike
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>> Unlikely, I'd say. JRRT liked Esperanto, thought the idea of an IAL
>> a good one (in "English and Welsh" he mentions as one of the external
>> virtues of Welsh the fact that it is not "in competition for the ruinous
>> honor" of being a global lingua franca), and particularly praised E-o
>> over its competition as being "the work of one man, and not a philologist"
>> (an artlangish auxlang, in fact).
I think you both are right. IIRC Tolkien was pretty favourable to E-o in
his younger days while his colleagues were gaga over Ogden's Basic English,
but as he got older his view changed and became highly critical.
What I am curious about is did Tolkien know of Otto Jesperson (and
Novial) and vice-versa...
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