Re: CHAT: EU allumettes (was: Re: THEORY/CHAT: Talmy, Jackendoff and Matchboxes

J Y S Czhang said:
>
> and it seems the general and mutual consensus here
> is
> that a pidgin-creole type auxlang-conlang is prob'ly the best bet and/or
> the most
> fun ;) If any one happens to think otherwise - partly or wholly, please
> post
> an explanatory rebuttal - this could be interesting... hehe...

You won't get any rebuttal from me. I've said for years that if the world
*needs* a lingua franca (which I doubt), then it should be Tok
Pisin/Bislama/Neo-Melanesian, which has achieved creole status. It has the
current world lingua franca (English) as its lexifier language, is
well-enough developed to serve splendidly in the national parliament of
Papua New Guinea, and is demonstrably easy to learn for speakers of a
typologically broad variety of languages (almost by definition, because of
the situation of its emergence as a pidgin).


-- Mark