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Re: A BrSc a?

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 19:22
At 1:18 am +0100 30/4/02, And Rosta wrote:
[snip]
> >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. [snip]
> >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. ====================== XRICTOC ANECTH ======================

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