Romaklono (jara: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?)

 --- James Landau skrzypszy:

>  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.
Great idea! But not after you've read the following message:

http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0206a&L=conlang&F=&S=&P=17373
(don't forget to copy'n'paste both lines of the link)

Jan

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