Re: Tempus
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 7, 2001, 9:17 |
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En réponse à Mefistofeles <mefistofeles@...>:
> Me and some friends (we are studying Chinese together) were discussing
> the fact that Chinese do not have Tempus. Chinese is one of the oldest
> and largest of all languages and it's don good with adverb of time. We
> came to the conclusion that either Chinese would be the perfect
> auxiliary languages or a constructed language with similarly structure,
> any comments? (By the way Swedish is my main language, just so you do
> not think I do not advocate my mother language).
> /DHS
>
I think that's what Yoshiko McFarland is trying to achieve with her Earth
Language, a pictographic language designed not only for international
communication but also for international understanding, through a philosophy of
trying to take what's best in every culture in the world (philosophy which
active influences the shape of the language). I haven't received any news about
it lately, so it seems that Yoshiko's quite busy at the moment. I used to know
where the webpage was, but it seems I forgot the URL. Well, any websearcher
should find it without difficulty :) .
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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