Re: Fictional auxlangs as artlangs (was Re: Poll)
From: | Ina van der Vegt <gijsstrider@...> |
Date: | Monday, December 15, 2008, 12:57 |
> AFAIK, while Lojban is not originally intended as an
> auxlang, the suggestion that it be used as one finds
> support from a sizeable part of the Lojban community.
>
> (I don't think it is a good idea, though. Learning
> Lojban requires understanding formal logic, which is
> way too "mathematical" for most people. You cannot
> treat millions of tourists and businesspeople to
> learn formal logic just to learn a *language*.
> But enough of that here; this is not AUXLANG.)
I can see one benefit of using a language grounded in formal logic,
and that would be the writing of formal agreements (and perhaps laws).
But Auxlanging isn't fun anyway. I am most likely some sort of mix
between funlanger and artlanger, and as long as we have English as our
Auxlang, I won't have to worry.