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

In a message dated 2004:05:02 08:29:07 PM, mark@POLYMATHIX.COM writes:

>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.
    And I guess I have been listenin' in ever since the auxlang flamefest
'tween the old-line Auxlangers and the heretic auxlangers who now are here on
conlang ;)
::IIRC Roger Mills bringin' up Bahasa Indonesia and his studies of
Malayo-Polynesian languages and IIRC Jacques Guy bringing up pidgins, creoles and
Austronesian languages... and both gettin' broadsided by some horridly vocal, old
style Esperantoists and Interlinguists with their usual biases against
"broken/baby-talk/babu languages"... and I was in the process of defecting from the
Glosa bunch::

> 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
    Papua NiuGini ;) Wantok bilong PNG!

>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).
    Esp'ly Bislama. Gotta love a language named after yummy seaslugs - poor
man's lobster.


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