Re: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?

On Thursday 06 February 2003 12:28 pm, you wrote:
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>  Hey, does anyone here want to try a hand at making a jokelang called
> Romaklono or Eurokloni or something like that? (-o or -i, depending on what
> you decide all nouns will end in). The language will have all the most
> salient traits of the Euroclone proposals, with all the worst trends that
> you keep seeing in all the IAL descriptions really overdone. It will come
> complete with the endless and repetitive bragging that people who want to
> outdo Esperanto emit, with its own site that announces that [language name
> here] is a wonder language, is faster and easier to learn than ANY other
> language in the world, has easily recognized roots, can solve ALL the
> problems of language, repeated over and over again. Its advertising will
> exude the attitude seen again and again in those people who seem to think
> that there would be no more oppression, repression or cultural conflict and
> all these horrible things never would have happened if only we had all
> spoken a language in which the word for strawberry was "edijubilo" and the
> word for mango was "edigabilo". It will claim to be an auxiliary language,
> but the rest of the site will make pretty clear the impression that it
> tries to REPLACE all other languages and stick a blade up to people's
> throats to coerce everyone into learning it. It will be heralded as a newly
> discovered miracle cure for all the world's ills, when even the vocabulary
> isn't much different at all from any other Euroclones.
I thought that had already been done, very satisfactorily, by a German priest
whose name eludes me, and called Volapuk.

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Wesley Parish

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