Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto

Jim Henry wrote:
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> My other point was that I *like* Vorlin on just about every linguistic
> ground as well as, on some points better than, Esperanto, but that
> judgments about IALs have to take factors other than purely
> (formal) linguistic factors into consideration.
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> Another point I meant to make (but perhaps didn't) was that life is
> short, and any language I put significant effort into becoming fluent
> in will have to have attractions other than the purely linguistic.
> With French and Classical Greek it's primarily books, with
> Esperanto it's mainly people, but other nifty languages like Vorlin,
> Lojban, and Teonaht, with all due respect to Rick Harrison, lojbab
> et alia, and Sally Caves, don't have those attractions.
Heh heh... so if I produced and published a substantial corpus of
memorable award-winning literature in Teonaht, and got at least a
hundred thousand amiable people to speak it and perform plays and
operas... maybe live in a gorgeous township with fabulous cooking...
THEN you might learn it?

(Just pulling your leg...I don't give myself easily to the learning
of languages either unless there's some profit in it)

Sally







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> > (BTW I'm *NOT* advocating English as _the_ IAL - merely observing a fact)
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> I'm not advocating Esperanto as _the_ IAL - merely observing a
> fact.
>
> Jim Henry III
> Jim.Henry@pobox.com
> http://www.pobox.com/~jim.henry/gzb/gzb.htm
> *gjax zaxnq-box baxm-box goq.