Re: LUNATIC again

At 5:15 pm -0500 3/11/98, Sally Caves wrote:
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>
>Thank you John... I don't know why I didn't see this OBVIOUS point, and
>Bryan has put it a little more beerishly, ;-) but it generates a new
>question.  We've got Esperanto going along, and Occidental, and now Lojban
>and NGL...
OOh, Sally - just the sort of remark that'd set off another flame war
elsewhere ;)

You've omitted RapLinRie, Interlingua & Glosa, all of which are active and
certainly have a committed following - and I suspect I've forgotten at
least one or two others.  If so, will the adherents of those conIALs please
accept my apologies - I'm not omitting you on purpose, honest  ;)


And is Lojban actually an IAL?  I thought it wasn't - tho of course it
could be so used.  But then so could Klingon which already has AFAIK one
native speaker :)

>say that NGL gets ironed out to perfection some day amongst its
>members, and having visited its page I realize that it doesn't consider
>itself as an auxiliary language but as a primary language for the modern
>world:
Yep - most conIAL promoters have always emphasized that they don't want
their conIAL to replace natlangs but to be a common L2.

And at 7:56 pm -0500 3/11/98, Bryan Maloney wrote:
>On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Sally Caves wrote:
>
>> Thank you John... I don't know why I didn't see this OBVIOUS point, and
>> Bryan has put it a little more beerishly, ;-) but it generates a new
>
>There is nothing that cannot be better understood in terms of beer.
Aye -
"Malt does more than Milton can
 To justify God's ways to man".   [A.E. Houseman]


Cheers  :)

Ray.