Re: OT: auxlangers vs. artlangers (was OT: lingua fracas)
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 20, 2003, 15:14 |
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>Or perhaps it is that people with a good feeling for language, skilled
>linguists or not, will realize that the little details don't really
>matter that much for learnability or usability. If they should want to
Good point, and one I have wondered about re: the arguments... sorry,
debates ... on AUXLANG.
E.g. I myself do not care whether a romance based auxlang uses "le" or "la",
etc. as the definite article,
or "-av-" or "-ab-" to mark a preterite, since I (and any speaker of a
romace language?) can readily make such a minor shift in comprehension.
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