Re: A BrSc a?

At 1:18 am +0100 30/4/02, And Rosta wrote:
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>We all know than in reality no IAL is going to attract a mass following,
Most of us do, anyway  ;)

>and that people who actually do want to learn and use an IAL will
>choose Esperanto.
Generally so - but I believe there is still a following for (reformed)
Volapük and some keen souls are trying to revive SolReSel.  Bob Petrie
claims some success for his Speedwords revival; and the Glosa-pe, I
believe, have quite a following and there are those who take up
Interlingua.  Good for them - I say!  Variety is the spice of life.

>So all that is up for grabs is attracting a
>significant 'cult' following, a la Lojban. It strikes me that brevity
>and nonambiguity, while maintaining a 'human face', would be far and
>away the best selling point.
Yes, I agree.  We'd both agree, I suspect, that Lin lacked a 'human face' -
but then Srikanth wasn't aiming for it.

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>To my mind, the idea of increasing brevity by means of using an unwritten
>vowel does not add significant complexity, and the idea of using
>homonymy adds a kind of complexity when it comes to learning vocab, but
>the rewards in brevity are so great that it would be easy to sell.
>
I agree about the unwritten vowels.  That's a common feature of shorthands
(and of some scripts like Hebrew, Arabic & ancient Egyptian) and has been a
feature of the various incarnations of BrSc over the past four decades;
what's being considered now is a way of extending this feature.

I'm more wary, I must confess, about homonymy.

Ray.



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